212 Mr. J. so Westwood’s descriptions of 
Nomia aurifrons. 
Nomia aurifrons, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1875), 
p- 43 (2). 
(N. Silhetica, Westw., MS. in Mus. Brit., and in Cat. 
Hym. Brit. Mus., i. p. 90.) 
Mr. Smith having described the female only, the follow- 
ing description of the male is here given :— 
Male less elongated than either NV. Llloti or iridescens. 
Head black, glossy, strongly punctate behind the an- 
tenn ; face densely clothed with pubescent, decumbent 
hairs. Mandibles and antenne pitchy, the latter redder 
in the middle. Thorax black above, opake, thickly and 
closely punctate, and clothed with very short, brown, erect 
hairs; sides before the wings with a patch of luteo- 
fulvous hairs, with which also the post-scutellum (des- 
titute of spines) is thickly clothed. Abdomen elongate- 
ovate above, opake, and entirely covered with very fine 
close punctures, the first and followmg segments having 
a broad apical margin of short decumbent fulvous hairs, 
which increase in width in the apical segments; the first 
seement also with the basal part clothed with very short 
luteous hairs. Abdomen beneath flat; the 2nd, 3rd and 
4th segments with an apical band of fine greyish hairs ; 
the 5th somewhat raised on each side into a low tubercle ; 
the 6th very small and divided down the middle. Legs 
fulvous; the femora pitchy-black, except at the tips; 
femora and tibie of the hind legs not thicker, but less 
hairy, than those of the female. Wings slightly stained, 
with the tips rather darker; veins and stigma pale fulvous ; 
first recurrent vein inserted between the middle and hinder 
angle of the 2nd submarginal cell. 
Female with the face slightly clothed with greyish-buff 
hairs. Abdomen considerably broader than in the male. 
Nomia combusta. (Pl. LV. fig. 3.) 
Nomia combusta, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1875), 
p. 56, pl. ii. fig. 9 (posterior leg). 
(XN. cilipes, Westw., MS. in Mus. Ind. Orient. Lond., and 
in the MS. of this Memoir.) 
Facie, occipite, et thoracis dorso setis fulvis brevissimis 
obsitis; scutello inermi, abdomine nigro, dorso fulvo-setoso, 
cingulis quinque apiceque fulvis, antennis pedibusque fulvo- 
flavescentibus, tarsis anticis parum dilatatis et externe 
