64 Mr. F. oh: descriptions of new species of 
The fascize are abraded in some degree in the unique 
specimen, but enough remains to show that all, except 
perhaps the first seoment, had entire fascie when the 
insect was in perfect ‘condition. 
25. Nomia rufipes. (Pl. II. fig. 3, 3.) 
Male.—Length 3? lines. Black: the legs, flagellum 
and mandibles pale ferruginous; the pubescence pale 
fulvous, except that on the cheeks, which is cinereous. 
Thorax with short pubescence above; the wings fulvo- 
hyaline, the nervures and tegulz pale ferruginous* the 
legs have the cox and trochanters black; the posterior 
femora swollen and with a stout tooth beneath ; ; the tibice 
curved, dilated at their apex, and with a small acute tooth 
in the middle of their inner margin. Abdomen very 
finely and closely punctured, pubescent, with the apical 
margins of all the segments testaceous, and with fasciz of 
pale-fulvous pubescence. 
Hab.—Gambia. 
*26. Nomia tridentata. (PI. II. fig. 10, ¢.) 
Male.— Length 34 lines. Black, pubescent; the 
posterior femora very greatly swollen and pubescent, with 
three sharp teeth or spines beneath, the third, near their 
apex, being the smallest. Head: the face with bright 
pale yellowish-white pubescence, that on the cheeks cine- 
reous; the flagellum of the antennz fulvous beneath. 
Thorax clothed above with dull fulvous pubescence, 
beneath and on the legs it is pale fulvous; the legs rufo- 
piceous; the tarsi pale; the posterior femora _palest 
beneath; the tibiz curved, and produced at their apex 
beneath into a long, pale-testaceous process, somewhat 
lanceolate in form; wings hyaline and iridescent, the 
nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate and pubescent, 
that at the base cinereous, the rest fulvous; the apical 
margins of the segments, except the basal one, testaceous ; 
beneath, the segments towards the apex with long, dense 
cinereous pubescence. 
Hab.—Cape of Good Hope ; Gambia. 
This species is somewhat like Nomia vulpina, Gerst., 
described and figured in Reis. Mossamb. (Peters), but it 
is a smaller insect, its pubescence of a different colour, 
and its abdomen and posterior legs of a different form. 
