Becords of Bees. 2')5 



The present species belongs to Fricse's group 1 (dark 

 forms), and by the character of the hibrum is allied to 

 E. tristis, Smith, ditteiing by the smaller size and the 

 markings of the abdomen. 



Nomioides karachensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Head and thorax brassy green, with quite abundant wliite 

 hair, especially long, forming a sort of radiating tuft, on 

 postscutellura ; head shaped like male N. variegata (as 

 figured by Handlirsch), with the red eyes deeply emargi- 

 nate ; front granular and punctured, vertex more shining ; 

 clypeus small, shining, sparsely punctured, pale yellow ; 

 lateral face-marks very small, oblong, situated between 

 clypeus and base of mandibles ; mandibles simple, pale 

 yellow, with the apex ferruginous ; scape slender, pale 

 yellow, black behind except at base ; flagellum ferruginous, 

 infuscated above ; mesothorax and scutellum brilliantly 

 shining ; tubercles, extending to line on prothorax, pale 

 yellow, and a pale spot in middle of rather projecting post- 

 scutellum ; sides of prothorax beneath dark ])urplish ; aiea 

 of metathorax granular, plicatulate basally, and with a tuft 

 of very white hair on each side ; tegulse hyaline, with a 

 yellowish spot. Wings milky hyaline, nervures and the 

 large stigma very pale yellowish ; marginal cell rather broadly 

 obliquely truncate at apex ; second and third submai-ginals 

 greatly narrowed above ; first r. n. meeting second t.-c. ; b. n. 

 very strongly bent. Legs black basally; the ends of the 

 femora more or less broadly, the tibiae and the tarsi pale 

 yellow, the hind tibiae with a large dusky patch in front. 

 Abdomen light yellow, broad, dull, only the hind margins of 

 the segments shining ; first segment with a dark greenish 

 patch on each side basally and a narrow, black, transverse, 

 subapical band, not nearly reaching the lateral mai'gins; 

 segments 2 to 4 with dusky lateral basal marks, those on 2 

 largest and darkest; sides of apical region with long white 

 hair ; apical half of venter very strongly stained with dark 

 brown. 



Hab. Karachi, N.W. India, July 1909 (E. Comber). 

 British Museum. 



Very distinct by its large size and pallid abdomen, Avherein 

 it closely resembles the American Perdita pallidior, Ckll., and 

 its allies. The face-markings are nearly as in the much 

 smaller Nomioides parvula (Fabr.). 



