dt Mr. F.Ghith’s descriptions of new species 
ment have a narrow fascia, the other segments being 
covered with similar pubescence, but of a brighter colour. 
Hab.—Silhet ; Barrackpore. 
*Nomia Elliotit. (Pl. I. fig. 7.) 
Female.—Length 4—43 lines. Black: the abdomen 
with green or blue-green fasciz on the apical margins of 
the abdominal segments. ‘The head and thorax above 
slightly shining, and closely and very finely punctured. 
Head: the antennz have the flagellum slightly fulvous at 
the apex beneath; the face and cheeks with white pubes- 
cence. Thorax: a narrow line of white pubescence at the 
anterior margin of the mesothorax, another at its apical 
margin, and the post-scutellum, which is armed with two 
spines, covered with the same; wings sub-hyaline, their 
apical margins faintly clouded; the exterior margin of the 
tegulz pale testaceous, or sometimes white; the legs have 
a pale glittering pubescence, which is very bright on the 
basal joint of the tarsi outside and on the posterior tibize. 
Abdomen smooth and shining, with four bright green 
fasciz. 
Male.—Closely resembles the female; but has the pos- 
terior femora incrassate and greatly swollen, being thickest 
in the middle; the tibiz curved and produced at their 
apex beneath into a fulvo-testaceous blunt process; this 
sex, as well as the female, has the scutellum emarginate 
posteriorly, the angles being acute or subdentate, and has 
also two spines on the post-scutellum. 
Var. The posterior legs with the femora ferruginous in 
both sexes, but usually more or less black above. 
Hab.— Madras ; Barrackpore ; Nischiudipore. 
The male of this species has been in the Museum Col- 
lection for upwards of twenty years, during which time the 
name given has been attached ; it was proposed in honour 
of the donor, but the description has not been published ; 
Mr. Rothney has taken both sexes. 
Nomia simillima. (PI. II. fig. 4.) 
Male.—Length 33 lines. Black: the head and thorax 
rather finely punctured; the abdomen has a narrow 
greenish-white fascia on the apical margins of the first 
four segments; the posterior femora and tibiz ferruginous. 
The face and cheeks with a silvery-white pubescence. 
