1896.] HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 451 
Genus Nomi, Latreille. 
292. Noma CAPiraTa, Smith. 
Nomia capitata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 54, 1¢. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
293. Noma carryata, Smith. 
Nomia carinata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 57, 89. 
294, NoMIA CHALYBHATA, Smith. 
Nomia chalybeata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 59, 1492 ¢, 
pli.f.5¢. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
295. NoMIA QUADRIDENTATA, Smith. 
Nomia quadridentata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 58,11 2 ¢, 
pl. u. f. 60. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
296. Nomza rusrica, Westwood. 
Nomia rustica, Westw. apud Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. 1. 90, 
213 ; Walk. Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. 
Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mose. 1863, 25. 
297. Nomia vinota, Walker. 
Nomia vincta, Walk. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, v. (1860), 
305; Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. Soc. 
Imp. d. Nat. Mose. 1863, 25. 
Genus Hauicrus, Latreille. 
298. Haxicrus aGrestis, Smith. 
Halictus agrestis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M.i. 61, 729; Jour. 
Linn. Soe. xi. (1867), 386, 2. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
299. HaALICTUS AMG@NUS, sp. Nov. 
9. L. 8 millim. Exp. 14 millim. 
Black, the head, thorax in front, and the basal segment of the 
abdomen piceous; wings sordid hyaline; legs with glistening 
fulvous pubescence, the tarsi light testaceous. ; ' 
The head finely and closely punctured, and covered with a thin 
fulvous pubescence; the clypeus broad, its anterior margin fringed 
with long fulvous hairs and marked with a few deep coarse 
punctures, the space above it convex, from which a short per- 
pendicular carina runs up between the base of the antenne; the 
front of the face subconcave; the ocelli in a broad triangle on the 
vertex; the antenne piceous, lighter on the scape in front. 
Thorax, the mesothorax above broad, convex, ue ae closely 
