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tomentose postscutcllura ; prothorax ordinary ; sides of thorax 

 hoary with pale hair; posterior face of metathorax rounded, 

 sliining-, hardly sculptured^ basal area smooth and polished. 

 Legs slender, with glittering pale hair, ferruginous on inner 

 side of tarsi; hind tibiae witli hardly any scopa; tegulte 

 ordinary, testaceous, with broadly fuscous base. Wings 

 strongly brownisli ; stigma large and piceous, nervures sepia; 

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

 first r. n. in middle. Abdomen shining, witiiout distinct 

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

 first tw^o segments broadly depressed. 



Manantoddy, "Wynad, India, 2500 ft., Nov. 17, 1917 

 {T.R.N.: Fletcher, Z^). 



No7nia hnmsi^ 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 white hair, the hind tibiae with a broad 

 scopa ; hind knee-phite large and conspicuous ; abdomen 

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

 dusky spots, remaining segments black, with liind margins 

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

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

 with much white hair ; clypeus finely punctured, glittering 

 between the punctures, not depressed in middle; supracly[)eal 

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

 tures ; flagellum reddened beneath beyond middle; vertex 

 closely punctured; mesothorax and scutellum shining, with 

 sparse fine punctures ; metatliorax rounded, the basal area 

 smooth and polished; tegulai small, testaceous. Wings clear 

 hyaline, stigma iufo-{)iceous, 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, Imlia, 1. 5. 1912 [A. D.lmms : Fletcher, 39). 



Nomia hurmica, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length 7*3 mm. 



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

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

 tegulaj ferruginous, not enlarged. Head bioad, e\cs black, 

 converging below ; mandibles rufous bcyontl midtlle ; face 

 and front densely covered with gliitering pale golden hair; 

 antennae very long, flagellum ferruginous Ijcneath ; front and 

 vertex dull and granular ; mesothorax and scutellum densely 



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