Records of Bees, 209 



tomentose posfscutellum ; prothorax ordinary ; sides of thorax 

 hoary with pale hair; posterior face of metathorax rounded, 

 shining-, hardly sculptured, basal area smooth and polished. 

 Legs slender, with glittering pale hair, ferruginous on inner 

 side of tarsi; hind tibiae with hardly any scopa; tegulse 

 ordinary, testaceous, with broadly fuscous base. Wings 

 strongly brownish ; stigma large and piceous, nervines sepia; 

 b. n. meeting t.-m. ; second s.m. narrow and small, receiving 

 first r. n. in middle. Abdomen shining, without distinct 

 punctures and without hair-bands ; the red hind margins of 

 first two segments broadly depressed. 



Manantoddy, Wym.d, India, 2500 ft., Nov. 17, 1017 

 (T.R.N.: Fletcher, 33). 



Nomia immsi, sp. n. 

 $ . — Length 6'3 mm. 



Head and thorax black, with rather abundant white hair, 

 not, however, hiding surface of mesothorax ; legs dark rufo- 

 piceous, with much wdiite hair, the hind tibiae with a broad 

 scopa ; hind knee-plate large and conspicuous ; abdomen 

 broad, shining, first segment clear ferruginous with a pair of 

 dusky spots, remaining segments black, with hind margins 

 of 2 to 4 broadly testaceous hyaline ; no distinct hair-bands. 

 Mandibles red in middle; head broad, sides of face and front 

 with much wdiite hair ; clypeus finely punctured, glittering 

 between the punctures, not depressed in middle; supraclypeal 

 area very large, convex, polished, with sparse distinct punc- 

 tures ; flageliuin reddened beneath beyond middle; vertex 

 closely punctured; mesothorax and scutellum shining, with 

 sparse fine punctures ; metathorax rounded, the basal area 

 smooth and polished; teguke small, testaceous. Wings clear 

 hyaline, stigma mfo-pieeous, nervures pale brown; b. n. 

 regularly arched, falling short of t.-m.; second s.m. very 

 narrow, receiving first r. n. in middle; third s.m. very broad 

 above. Abdomen not distinctly punctured. 



Dehra Dun, India, 1. 5. 1912 (A. D.lmms : Fletcher, 39). 



Nomia burmica, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 7'3 mm. 



Black, with the extreme apex of abdomen, the knees, 

 tibia?, and tarsi ferruginous; legs slender and unmodified; 

 teguke ferruginous, not enlarged. Head bioad, eyes black, 

 converging below ; mandibles rufous beyond middle ; face 

 and front densely covered with glittering pale golden hair j 

 antennas very long, flagellum ferruginous beneath ; front and 

 vertex dull and granular ; mesothorax and scutellum densely 



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