ISG ]\Ir. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descrij)tions and 



suffused with brassy on head, thorax, and basal half of 

 abdomen. Wings clear, stigma ferruginous, nervures testa- 

 ceous ; second s.m. narrowed almost to a point above, and 

 receiving first r. n, not much beyond the middle ; last dorsal 

 segment rugose, light bluish green, not keeled; large 

 ochreous mark on clypeus without prominent lateral lobes; 

 labrum and mandibles entirely black ; tubercles ivory- 

 colour. 



Hab. Karachi, N.W. India (^Comher). British Museum. 



Perhaps only a variety of C. binghami ; Bingham says : 

 " The specimens from the Punjab and Western India have a 

 golden-bronzy tint,^' referring, 1 suppose, to comberi. 



Apis indica peroni, Latr. 



Tainan, Auping, Formosa, July ]3, 1906 (^A. E. Wileman). 

 British Museum. 



Hulictus propinquus, Smith. 



Nasik and Karachi (Comber). British jMuseum. 

 Closely related to H. tumalorum. The tibise and tarsi in 

 the female are ferruginous rather than yellow. 



Nomia parcella, Ckll. 



A female from Karachi (^Comber) is so like an Halictus 

 that I had it mixed with that genus. It is like the male, 

 but has a very broad face with thin greyish-white hair ; 

 antennse black, the thick flagellum very obscure reddish 

 beneath ; apical half of mandibles dark reddish ; front with 

 well-separated punctui'es and irregular striae ; area of meta- 

 thorax with irregular rugae. Legs dark brown, with glittering 

 hairs ; knees and small joints of tarsi ferruginous. Apical 

 margins of first two abdominal segments broadly ferruginous. 

 The last-mentioned character readily separates it Irom the 

 similar small Halicti of the same region. From all tlie 

 other Numi(B of the reg\on, par'cella is known by the sm;ill 

 size, ordinary tegulae, and hind legs of male not noticeably 

 modified. 



Nomia perezlana, n. n. 



Nutnin gradlipes. P6rez, Bull. Sci. France et Belgique, xli. 1907, 

 p. 491. Persian Gulf. (Not of Smith.) 



Allied to N. parca, Kohl, but male tarsi longer. 



Black Halicti of India. 

 A number of years ago, Col. C. T. Bingham gave me a 



