210 Mr. J. * Westwood’s descriptions of 
hairs, the back of the head and front of the thorax with 
fulvous-brown ones; the remainder of the thorax, the 
basal segment of the abdomen, and the posterior femora, 
with brown hairs. The scutellum is emarginate on its 
hind margin; the tegule are fulvous-brown, with the 
edge paler. The abdomen is black and obscure; the 
basal portion of each segment is very delicately punctate 
and setose, and separated from the hind part by a trans- 
verse impression, leaving the apical portion in the 3rd 
and 4th segments broader than the basal part ; this hinder 
part is smooth and but slightly setose, and marked on 
each side with a pale, greenish-white, transverse, marginal 
spot, which is of a triangular form in the 5th segment. 
The mandibles are slender, black and entire, and pointed 
at the tip; the maxille are small, and the tongue 
elongated and densely ciliated, especially in the middle 
part ; the paraglossx are rather more than half the length 
of the labial palpi, slender, and pointed. The antenn 
are rather short, black, with the terminal joint pitchy-red. 
The legsare short; the hind femora very much thickened 
and curved, entire on the under edge; the tibiz are very 
short and triangular, with a black polished impression on 
the outside at the extremity; on the underside they are 
furnished with a small, conical, obtuse lobe ; the calcaria 
are long, the inner one finely serrated, or rather clothed, 
with short, erect, stiff hairs; the posterior tarsi clothed 
with a thick coating of fulvous hairs on the underside ; 
the wings are slightly stained with brown, the apical 
margin being darkest. ‘The first recurrent vein of the 
forewings enters the 2nd submarginal cell beyond the 
middle, and the 2nd recurrent vein at about two-thirds 
of the length of the 3rd submarginal cell. The 4th and 
following segments of the abdomen on the underside are 
furnished with large, rounded, ciliated plates of a remark- 
able form, which want of specimens has not enabled me 
to examine as completely as I could have wished. 
The species differs from NV. strigata, Fabr., in the 
thorax being destitute of the lateral margin of white hairs, 
and in not having the abdominal segments marked with 
entire pale marginal fasciz, as well as in the colours of 
the feet; from WN. crassipes, Fab., it also differs in the 
same respects, and in not having the hind legs spined. 
PL. IV. fig. 1, Nomia Buddha rather magnified; 1a, head 
seen in front; 10, ditto sideways; le, labrum; 1d, man- 
dible; le, maxilla detached; 1f, ditto in situ; 1g, lower 
