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niiddle ; clypeus shining-, coarsely pnuctiireJ, depressed in 

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

 face and front covered with spreading glittering wiiite liair ; 

 scape long and curved, flagellum obscurely reddish near base ; 

 vertex polished, with large scattered punctures ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum polished, nearly bare, with very large irregular 

 jaincture.s, 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 witii white tomentum ; posterior face of metathorax 

 densely and coarsely punctured, the basal enclosure small, 

 without plicse. 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 tibiaj and all the tarsi with much white hair, hair on 

 inner side of hind tarsi very pale yellowish. Abdomen 

 shining, the first tv*'0 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 an:l 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.fietcheri in the form of the head, the tegulfie 

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

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

 ])unctured, only very thinly iiairy ; white hair at sides of 

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

 tured, but vertex almost entirely impunctate ; scape long, 

 dagellum faintly reddish beneath; sides of prothorax ex- 

 panded and sharp-edged as in jletclieri; mesothorax and 

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

 metathorax polished, without sculpture, posterior face dullish ; 

 nies-opleura rugose. Wings strongly du.sky, stigma reddish 

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

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

 fk'tcheri. Legs black, with pale iiair. First two abdominal 

 segments dull and impunctate ; bands of white tomentum at 

 bases of second and third segments, disc of fourth covered 



