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post-scutellum densely covered with pale, fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; the centre much more sparsely with shorter, 

 darker pubescence, and closely and minutely punctured. 

 Median segment very shining, the base impunctate, 

 the rest with minute, scattered, shallow punctures. Pro- 

 pleurae impunctate, glabrous ; the basal three-fourths of 

 the mesopleurcX covered thickly with pale fulvous hair ; 

 the apex and the metapleurai sparsely covered with long, 

 pale fulvous hair. Legs : the cox^, trochanters, and the 

 greater part of the femora, black ; the tibiae and tarsi rufo- 

 testaceous ; the femora sparsely, the tibi^ and tarsi very 

 thickly covered with long, white hair, almost hiding the 

 colour. Abdomen black, the ventral surface for the greater 

 part ferruginous, the basal four segments closely punctured, 

 fringed at the base with white hair ; the apical segments 

 impunctate, clothed with soft, white hair ; the penultimate 

 ventral segment is depressed in the middle, and with two 

 large tubercles on either side. Wings hyaline, the stigma 

 testaceous, the nervures blackish, the recurrent nervures 

 are received about the same distance from the base and 

 apex of the cellule. 



NOMIA AUREOHIRTA, Sp. nov. (PI. 4, f 7.) 



Long. 10 mm. $ . 



Hub, Poona ( Wroiighton). 



In Bingham's table (/.<:., p. 448), this species comes into 

 h. a?" and into a new section O : — Enclosed space at base 

 of median segment transversely striated. In the form of 

 the hinder femora in the $> it resembles N.fervida; but 

 the form of the tibia; is different; in N.fervida it is broadly 

 dilated in the middle ; in the present species there is no 

 dilatation, but a gradual curve from the base to the apex; 

 the under side of the femora also is straight to the keel, 

 while in N.fervida the base is curved inwardly and the 

 middle dilated slightly. 



