236 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



Numioides comberi, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length 6 ram. or slightly more. 



Head and thorax bluish green^ truncation of metathorax 

 yellower ; abundant white hair as in N. karachensis, with 

 the same tuft on postscutellum ; clypeus, labrum, small round 

 mark between clypeus and base of mandibles, and mandibles 

 except ferruginous apex all white ; eyes very deeply emar- 

 ginate ; shape of head about as in male N. fallax (as figured 

 by Handlirsch), but emargination of eyes much stronger ; 

 face and cheeks with much white hair ; front dullish, 

 granular_, vertex shiuing; scape short, cream-colour, black 

 behind; flagellum long, rather thickened apically, black 

 above, beneath pale brown, reddish at base, joints 9 to 12 

 whitish, last joint black beneath, strongly contrasting ; upper 

 border of prothorax and tubercles white ; no light marks on 

 scutellum or postscutellum ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 shining ; area of metathorax very finely transversely striate, 

 the striation passing into a cancellate pattern in the middle ; 

 tegulse hyaline, with an angular white patch. Wings per- 

 fectly clear, strongly iridescent ; stigma and nervures very 

 pale yellow; second r, n. bowed outwards ; first r. n. meeting 

 second t.-c. or entei'ing base of third s.m. Legs marked as 

 in N. karachensis , but the hind tibise and all the tarsi are 

 white, though the anterior and middle tibise are light canary- 

 yellow. Abdomen rather narrow, shining, black above and 

 below, with pale yellow bands on segments 2 to 5, the first 

 two slightly interrupted, or the first entire, the last two 

 broadly interrupted ; venter without bands. 



Hab. Karachi, N.W. India, three males {E. Comber). 

 British Museum. . One is dated September 1909. 



This is too different from A"^. karachensis to be its male. 

 There is some resemblance to N. variegata (Oliv.), but the 

 large size and peculiar coloration of the antennse readily 

 distinguish it. 



In his last publication (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, Sept. 

 1908) Edward Saunders remowiid. Nomioides from the vicinity 

 of Halictus and placed it between Cilissa and Panurgus. It 

 certainly appears to have Panurgine affinities, as shown by 

 the truncate marginal cell, the slender tongue, and the 

 general appearance. The species look exactly like species 

 of the American Panurgid genus Perdita, and it is difficult 

 to believe that Perdita did not arise either from Numioides or 

 some close relative now extinct. There are, however, great 

 differences in the mouth-parts as well as the venation; thus 



