6S Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



tliickly with depressed, fulvous pubescence ; the apices of 

 the first and fourth segments broadly fulvous-yellow ; the 

 apical segments entirely of that colour ; the apical segment 

 thickly covered with long, golden hair ; the ventral seg- 

 ments black. 



NOMIA MAHRATTA, Sp. 710V. 



Long. 8 mm. ? . 



Hab. Bombay ( Wroiighton). 



In Bingham's table {I.e., p. 449), this species comes into 

 "^^ Thorax above with thin cinereous pubescence" which 

 is now divided into : — 



1. Area at base of median segment finely reticulate ; 

 the legs rufo-testaceous ; the pubescence on the ventral 

 segments cinereous. N, aurata. 



2. Area at base of median segment finely longitudinally 

 striated ; only the hinder tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous ; 

 the pubescence on the ventral segments dense, ferruginous. 



N. mahratta. 



Head, from a little above the antennae, thickly covered 

 with white pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus fringed 

 with long, golden hair. The mandibles, before the middle, 

 piceous ; the front and vertex impunctate. Antennae 

 rather slender, black, the scape almost bare ; the apical 

 joint rufous. Thorax thickly covered with longish hair ; 

 fuscous in colour above, almost white on the sides ; the 

 mesonotum opaque, finely rugose, almost transversely 

 striated ; the scutellum shining, bearing shallow, scattered 

 punctures, and sparsely covered with long, fuscous hair ; 

 the post-scutellum thickly covered with white pubescence. 

 Median segment with an abrupt, oblique slope ; opaque, 

 finely and closely shagreened ; the base with the area not 

 clearly limited, and closely longitudinally striolated ; the 

 furrow on the apical half wide and deep at the base. Pro- 

 pleurae shining, coarsely aciculated ; the mesopleurae 

 at the tubercules thickly covered with white pubescence ; 



