short-tongued bees of the genus Nomia. 211 
lip and tongue; 1h, hind leg; 12, ventral view of the 
abdomen of the male. 
Nomia Syhesiana. (P1. IV. fig. 2.) 
Capite nigro, griseo-setoso, linea’ setarum albidarum 
utrinque inter oculos et antennas, his fulvis, basi et articulo 
apicali dilatato nigris ; thorace fulvo-setoso, abdomine nigro, 
fasciis 5 marginalibus in medio interruptis albis; pedibus 
posticis castaneis, albido-setosis, femoribus dilatatis ; tibiis 
brevibus, subtrigonis, angulo interno apicali acuminato, 
supra excavato, margine supero excavationis angulato, 
tarsis elongatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 5; expans. alar. antic. lin. 9. 
Habitat in India Orientali (Col. Sykes). In Mus. 
Indico Orientali, Lond. 
This species is distinguished by having the terminal 
joint of the fulvous antennz black and dilated into a 
flattened knob, and by the interrupted white fasciz of the 
abdomen. The head is clothed with short brownish-grey 
hairs, with a line of whitish hairs on each side of the face 
between the antennz and eyes. The antenne are quite 
filiform, except the terminal dilated jomt. The thorax 
is clothed with brown hairs, those of the anterior part 
being of a more fulvous hue ; the scutellum is simple and 
convex ; the tegulz are kidney-shaped and fulvous-brown, 
with a slender, pale, raised edge. The abdomen is much 
larger than the thorax; it is very delicately and closely 
punctured and finely setose, each segment having a deep 
transverse central impression, the hind part of each 
segment being smoother and marked with a transverse 
white fascia interrupted in the middle. The wings are 
slightly stained with brown, having the terminal por- 
tion, beyond the cells, reddish-brown. The two re- 
current veins join the second and third submarginal cells 
at two-thirds of the length of their under sides. The hind 
femora are short and strongly dilated, the under edge not 
dentate, but with a longitudinal impression; the hind 
tibize are short and nearly trigonate, the inner apical angle 
produced and acute; the upper edge between the apex and 
the base of the tarsi with an impressed space, the upper 
angle of which is produced upwards. The hind tarsi are 
much elongated. 
Pl. LV. fig. 2, Nomia Sykesiana magnified; 2a, an- 
tenna; 24, hind tibia and basal joint of the tarsus seen 
more laterally than in the figure of the insect. 
