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rather more strongly and closely punctured towards the 
base; it has also an additional band on the abdomen, the 
fascize being in some examples greenish-yellow; the pos- 
terior femora incrassate, the tibiae curved and produced at 
their apex within into a thin, pale-testaceous process, 
which is truncate at the apex. ; 
Hab.—Shanghai, N. China. 
*15. Nomia Australica. (PI. II. fig. 11, ¢.) 
Female.— Length 44—5 lines. Head and thorax black, 
abdomen steel-blue. Head: the scape of the antenne, the 
flagellum beneath and the anterior margin of the clypeus 
ferruginous, the scape sometimes fuscous behind; the front 
and vertex with pale-fulvous pubescence, that on the cheeks 
cinereous. ‘Thorax: very delicately punctured above, and 
with distant stronger punctures interspersed ; the pubes- 
cence on the sides, beneath, and on the legs, cinereous ; 
the post-scutellum with short white pubescence ; wings 
subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins; the 
exterior margins of the tegule more or less testaceous. 
Abdomen: very finely and. very closely punctured; the 
third and fourth segments with pubescent fascize, more or 
less fulvous on their apical margins; sometimes a more 
or less interrupted fascia on the second segment, but 
usually obsolete. 
Male.— Bears a strong resemblance to the female, but 
narrower, the abdomen being narrowed towards its base ; 
the antenne as long as the head and thorax; the apex 
of the cly peus, and also the mandibles pale teseneemie 
The posterior femora swollen, the tibiz dilated at their 
apex, and produced beneath into a truncate process. 
This appears to be the most abundant species found in 
Australia. It not only varies in the colour of its pubes- 
cence from age, but also apparently from the locality it 
inhabits, specimens from Adelaide being the most highly 
coloured that I have seen. 
Hab.— Adelaide ; Port Philip; Moreton Bay; Swan 
River; Champion Bay. 
*16. Nomia merens. 
Female.—Length 43 lines. Black: very closely and 
finely punctured, except the clypeus, which is coarsely 
punctured ; the pubescence cinereous, except that on the 
tarsi beneath, which is bright fulvous. The antennz 
