208 jMr. T. D. A. Cockerell — JJescriptions and 



with white hair, except a median transverse band, fifth with 

 niucli white hair. 



Nasik, India {Comber). 



Sent by Mr. Meade- Waldo as N. virgata^ Ckll., which it 

 only superficially resembles. 



JVontia chajjreiuis, sp. n, 



$ . — Length about 7'3 mm. 



Robust ; head, thorax, and legs black; abdomen polished, 

 clear ferruginous, with a black band on middle third of second 

 segment, just before the depression, third and fourth segments 

 with entiie black bands, broadened at sides, slender in 

 middle ; fifth segment and apex black ; head broad, orbits 

 converging below ; mandibles red in midtlle ; clypeus finely 

 rugoso-punctate, supraclypeal area shining ; face and front 

 covered with pale slightly ochreous-tinted hair; flagellum 

 dark reddish beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, 

 with very fine punctures; thorax above with rather dense 

 short pale ochreous hair ; prothorax ordinary; posterior face 

 of metathorax polished, rounded, with weak punctures; basal 

 area small and not evidently sculptured, but there is a linear 

 transverse groove in which are fine rugee ; tegulse small, 

 fulvous. Wings hyaline, stigma and nervures pale ferru- 

 ginous ; b. n. falling short of t.-m. ; second s.m. narrow, 

 receiving first r. n. beyond middle. Legs with pale ochreous 

 hair, hind basitarsi broad, small joints of tarsi red. Abdomen 

 without hair-bands, but fourth and fifth segments apical ly 

 with thin yellowish hair. 



Chapra [Mackenzie: Fletcher^ 3). 



I do not know any closely allied species. The short, broad, 

 bare, red abdomen is distinctive. 



Nornia chalcea, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 9 mm. 



With the aspect of an Andrena ; head, thorax, and legs 

 black, tarsi reddish apically ; abdomen with first segment 

 red, second red with a broad black band, third black with 

 extreme base and broad apex red, remaining segments black, 

 the hind margin ol: fourth pellucid ; mandibles dark reddish 

 beyond middle; clypeus dullish, very finely rugose, con- 

 spicuously depressed in middle; face with very thin whitish 

 hair : front extremely minutely punctured ; scape long, 

 flagellum red beneath except basally, broadly so at apex ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum shining, with hardly noticeable 

 minute punctures ; thorax above sparsely hairy, except the 



