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middle ; clypeus shining, coarsely punctured, depressed in 

 middle, the middle and base with much white hair; sides of 

 face and front covered with spreading glittering white hair ; 

 scape long and curved, flagellum obscurely reddish near base ; 

 vertex polished, with large scattered punctures ; mesothorax 

 ancr*scutellum polished, nearly bare, with very large irregular 

 punctures, sparse on mesothorax ; a thin band of white hair 

 along posterior margin of mesothorax, and postscutellum and 

 sides of prothorax (which are sharply margined) densely 

 covered witli white tomentum ; posterior face of metathorax 

 densely and coarsely punctured, the basal enclosure small, 

 without plica3. Wings faintly dusky, especially at apex; 

 stigma small, dusky reddish, nervures fuscous ; first r. n. 

 meeting second t.-c. ; third s.m. very long, as long as the 

 other two combined; b. n. meeting t.-m. Legs black, the 

 hind tibia? and all the tarsi with much white hair, hair on 

 inner side of hind tarsi very pale yellowish. Abdomen 

 shining, the first two segments coarsely punctured, unusually 

 large punctures at sides of first before the apical depression; 

 bases of second and following segments with bands of white 

 tomentum ; apical margins of segments (very narrowly on 

 first) testaceous, on third and fourth overlapped by a thin 

 fringe of hair; apex of fifth segment with dense white hair. 



Tarnab, Peshawar District, India, May 1916 [Fletcher, 37). 



Apparently allied to N. basalt's, Smith, but much larger 

 and with dark legs. 



Nomia opacula, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 9 mm. 



Black ; like N.Jietcheri in the form of the head, the tegulse 

 (but the dark area larger), the hair on thorax, abdomen and 

 legs, and the dagger-shaped tongue ; clypeus shining, coarsely 

 puncture.d, only very thinly hairy ; white hair at sides of 

 face and front, but not very abundant ; front coarsely punc- 

 tured, but vertex almost entirely im punctate ; scape long, 

 flagellum faintly reddish beneath; sides of prothorax ex- 

 panded and sharp-edged as in fietclieri; mesothorax and 

 scutellum dull, with a very few scattered punctures; base of 

 metathorax polished, without sculpture, posterior face dullish ; 

 mesopleura rugose. Wings strongly dusky, stigma reddish 

 brown, nervures fuscous ; b. n. strongly bent, meeting t.-m. ; 

 first r. n. meeting second t.-c; third s.m. not so' long as in 

 fietcheri. Legs black, with pale hair. First two abdominal 

 segments dull and impunctate ; bands of white tomentum at 

 bases of second and third segments, disc of fourth covered 



