46 Dir. sifth’s descriptions of new species 
Male.—Closely resembles the female, but the legs are 
black with the tarsi rufo-piceous, the apical joints being 
palest; the posterior femora incrassate, being greatly 
swollen at their apex; the tibiz curved, exteriorly much 
swollen and thickened gradually to their apex, which 
beneath is pale testaceous. Abdomen: the apical margins 
of the second and following segments narrowly white ; 
punctured as in the female, but more pubescent at the 
sides and at the base. 
Hab.—Barrackpore ; China. 
*Nomia antennata. (PI. I. figs. 9, 9a.) 
Female.—Length 53 lines. Black: the pubescence 
fulvous, which is more or less pale; the abdomen with 
fascie of the same. Head: the antennz, except the scape 
and two basal joints of the flagellum, fulvous beneath ; 
the face covered with pale, fulvous, short pubescence, 
which has a golden tint in certain lights; the cheeks and 
the legs are clothed with the same; on the mesothorax, 
above, the pubescence is rich fulvous; a line of short, 
paler pubescence on the post-scutellum; the wings hyaline, 
their apex, beyond the marginal cell, fuscous ; the nervures 
ferruginous; the tarsi of the same colour. The apical 
margins of the four basal segments of the abdomen with 
fasciee of pale fulvous pubescence. 
Male.—The general colour and the pubescence as in 
the opposite sex ; the antennz as long as the head and 
thorax ; the scape and the apical joint black, the latter 
enlarged and compressed into an irregular circular forma- 
tion nearly thrice the diameter of the previous joint. The 
posterior legs have the femora greatly enlarged, the tibiz 
curved and greatly dilated at and towards their apex. The 
abdomen with similar pubescent fasciz to those on the 
female. 
Hab.—India; Bombay Presidency. 
This species does not form part of Mr. Rothney’s col- 
lection, it was obtained from that of Captain Laing, 
and was taken near Lucknow; it is described from 
specimens in the British Museum, and is incorporated 
in this paper solely in consequence of its having capitate 
antenn ; it will be observed that the club is composed 
of a single jomt; in the new genus, Cyathocera, it is two- 
jointed. 
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