Bees belonging to the genus Nomia of Latreille. 67 
fuscous, the tegule black. Abdomen: the apical margins 
much depressed; beneath rufo-testaceous. 
Hab.— Natal. 
This species varies in the colouring of the abdomen 
from that described to being ferruginous with only the 
basal segment, or with that and a dark stain in the 
middle of the second, black. 
*32. Nomia rujfitarsis. 
Male.—Length 3 lines. Black, closely punctured, tarsi 
pale ferruginous, abdomen with three snow-white fasciz. 
Head: the face covered with cinereous pubescence; the 
flagellum of the antennz fulvous beneath. Thorax: the 
pubescence on the sides, beneath and on the legs cinereous; 
the scutellum bituberculate, the post-scutellum with white 
pubescence, wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures fuscous; 
the tegulz testaceous, posterior legs simple. Abdomen: 
the apical margins of the second, third and fourth segments 
white; the margin of the basal segment fringed laterally 
with griseous pubescence. 
Hab.— Angola Country (Africa). 
*33. Nomia armata. (PI. II. fig. 14, ¢.) 
Male.—Length 5 lines. Black: the pubescence fulvous, 
more or less bright; the posterior femora and tibiz enlarged, 
and armed with a short tooth. Head covered below the 
insertion of the antennz with bright pale-fulvous pubes- 
cence; the flagellum of the antenne fulvous beneath; the 
mandibles pale ferruginous. Thorax densely clothed 
above with short fulvous pubescence ; wings subhyaline, 
slightly clouded at their apex, the nervures ferruginous ; 
the anterior and intermediate tarsi, tibize and femora, except 
the base of the latter, and the posterior femora (at their 
apex), tibiz and tarsi, fulvo-ferruginous; the posterior 
femora greatly swollen, and with an acute tooth in the 
middle of their inferior margin; the tibiz curved, dilated 
towards their apex, with an acute tooth beneath, and 
produced at their apex into a pointed process. Abdomen 
closely and finely punctured, the apical margins of the 
segments testaceous and with fascie of pale-fulvous 
pubescence. 
Hab.—Sierra Leone. 
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