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sublaterally), labrum, lateral marks, mandibles except tips, and a 

 narrow band up posterior orbits (omitting upper quarter) all light 

 yellowish ferruginous ; lateral marks broad below, with an inner pro- 

 jection pointing toward upper end of clypeus, and above ending in a 

 point, separated from orbital margin, at about the level of antennae ; 

 clypeus with minute punctures, and the lower half, especially toward 

 sides, with scattered large ones ; scape in front and fiagellum beneath 

 yellowish ferruginous, but the latter becoming dusky beyond the 

 basal third ; upper side of antenniB dark, the second and third joints 

 reddish ; third joint longer than fourth, but not greatly so ; meso- 

 thorax closely punctured, but shining between the punctures ; scu- 

 tellum pale yellow, flattened, not at all gibbous ; postscutellum 

 obscurely reddish ; area of metathorax dull, minutely roughened ; 

 upper border of prothorax, tubercles, and a large transverse patch on 

 pleura pale yellow, the pleural patch suffused with red around the 

 edges ; no metathoracic spots ; sternum ending between the hind 

 cox£e in a triangular shining process, which is truncate at the end ; 

 tegulae pale reddish, light yellow anteriorly ; wings ratlier dusky, 

 slightly reddish, the slender stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous ; 

 b. n. barely falling short of t. m. ; second s. m. broad, receiving r. n. 

 beyond the middle ; third s. m. greatly narrowed above ; legs bright 

 ferruginous, the tibiae a little suffused with yellow ; outer side of hind 

 coxae yellow ; anterior coxae with stout spines ; abdomen finely but 

 very distinctly punctured, with entire cream-coloured bands on all 

 the segments, that on the first with a ferruginous mark on each side, 

 that on the second very broad laterally, but much narrowed in the 

 middle ; ground colour before the second band ferruginous, after 

 it black or nearly ; pygidial plate black, extremely broad ; venter 

 with four broad cream-coloured bands. 



Hah. Gyangtse, 13,000 ft., June, 1904 (H. J. Walton ; Thibet 

 Expedition). British Museum. 



This is a typical member of the subgenus Micronomada, 

 related to such species as the American N. snowii and N. 

 ridingsii. In Schmiedeknecht's table of Palffiarctic species it 

 runs to N. coxalis, Morawitz, to which it appears to be allied, 

 differing, however, greatly in coloration, and in the flattened 

 scutellum. In the table of Indian species given by Nurse (Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. June, 1903, p. 545) it runs nearest to N. arida, 

 but differs in many particulars. 



Melitta altissima, sp. nov. 

 ? . Length 13-15 mm. ; black, with black and greyish white 

 hair, the abdomen beyond the second segment covered with bright 

 ferruginous hair ; head and thorax shining, with close shallow punc- 

 tures ; a smooth space on each side of ocelli ; clypeus densely punc- 

 tured above, sparsely and irregularly, but more or less grooved, below, 

 and with a median smooth line ; labrum with a shining median 

 tubercle ; tongue slender dagger-shaped, formed, with the small para- 

 glosstB, as usual in the genus, but rather longer than in M. lejJorina ; 

 first joint of labial palpi not so long as the next two together ; 

 antennge black, the fiagellum obscurely ferruginous beneath ; hair of 



