186 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



suffused with brassy on head, thorax, aiil basal half of 

 abdonicu. Wings clear, stigiua ferruginous, nervures testa- 

 ceous ; second s.m. narrowed almost to a point above, and 

 receiving first r. n.not much beyoud the middle ; last dorsal 

 segment rugose, light bluish green, not keeled ; large 

 ochreous mark on clypeus without prominent lateral lobes ; 

 labrum and mandibles entirely black ; tubercles ivory- 

 colour. 



Hub. Karachi, N.W. India (Comher). British ]\luseum. 



Perhaps only a variety of C. hinghami ; Bingham says : 

 " The specimens from the Punjab and Western India have a 

 golden-bronzy tint,'^ referring, 1 suppose, to comheri. 



Apis indica peroni, Latr. 



Tainan, Anping, Formosa, July 13, 1906 (J[. E. IVileman). 

 British Museum. 



Ha/ictus propin^uus, Smith. 



Nasik and Karachi (Comber). British Museum. 

 Closely related to H. tuinulorum. The tibiae and tarM in 

 the female are ferruginous rather than yellow. 



Nomia parcella, Ckll. 



A female from Karachi (^Comher) is so like an Halictus 

 that I had it mixed with that genus. It is like the male, 

 but has a very broad face with thin greyish-white hair ; 

 antenniB black, the thick tlagcllum very obscure reddish 

 betieath j apical half of mandibles dark reddish ; front with 

 well-separated punctures and irregular stride ; area of meta- 

 thorax with irregular rugse. Legs dark brown, witii glittering 

 hairs ; knees and small joints of tarsi ferruginous. Apical 

 margins of first two abdominal segments broadly ferruginous. 

 Tlie last-mentioned character readily separates it Irom the 

 similar small Halicti of the same region. From all the 

 other A'omia of the region, ^orcc//a is known by the smiU 

 size, ordinary tegulae, and hind legs of male not noticeably 

 modified. 



Nomia perc'ziana, n. n. 



Nomia gracilipes. P^rez, Bull. Sci. France et Belgiquo, xli. UK)?, 

 p. 4i»l. Persian Gulf. (Not of Smith.) 



Allied to N. jjarca, Kohl, but male tarsi longer. 



Black Ihilwfi of India. 

 A number of years ago, Col. C. T. Bingham gave me a 



