1896.] HrMBNOPTBBA OF OBTtOKf. 



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Genus Nomia, Latreille. 



292. Nomia oapitata, Smith. 



Mjnia capitata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 54, 1 cJ . 

 Pundaloya {Green coll.). 



293. Nomia oabinata, Smith. 



Nomia carinata, Smith, Trans. But. Soc. 1875, 57, 8 $ . 



294. Nomia ohalybbaxa, Smith. 



Nomia chalyheata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875. 59. 14 9 rf 

 pi. ii. f.5c?. , , ^ , 



Pundaloya (Green coll.). 



295. Nomia quadmdbntata. Smith. 



Nomia quadridentata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 58, 11 2 cJ 

 pi. ii. f . 6 cJ . 



Pundaloya {Green coll.). 



296. Nomia bustioa, "Westwood. 



Nomia rustica, Westw. apud Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. i. 90, 

 21 J ; Walk. Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. 

 Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 25. 



297. Nomia tincta. Walker. 



N^omia vincta, Walk. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, v. (1860), 

 305; Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, eh. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. Soc. 

 Imp. d. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 25. 



Genus Hauotus, Latreille. 



298. Halictus agbestis. Smith. 



Balictus agrestis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. i. 61, 72 $ ; Jour. 

 Lion. Soc. xi. (1867), 386, 2. 

 Pundaloya {Green coll.). 



299. Halictus am(enus, sp. nov. 

 $ . 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 antennae ; the 

 front of the face subconcave ; the ocelli in a broad triangle on the 

 vertex ; the antennae piceous, lighter on the scape in front. 

 Thorax, the mesothorax above broad, convex, finely and closely 



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