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the metapleurai covered with long, white hair. Legs black ; 

 the hinder tibiae and tarsi rufous ; the coxae and femora 

 covered with long, white hair ; the tibiae and tarsi more 

 thickly covered with shorter hair ; the hair on the hinder 

 tibiae being longer and thicker ; the claws rufous. Wings 

 hyaline, the apex slightly infuscated ; the second cellule 

 scarcely half the length of the top of the third ; the costa 

 and stigma black ; the nervures fuscous ; the second 

 recurrent nervure is received the length of the second 

 cubital cellule from the apex of the third cellule. Abdo- 

 men shining, impunctate ; the base and sides of the basal 

 segment covered with long, white hair ; the sides and 

 apices of the other segments fringed with white pubescence ; 

 the ventral segments thickly covered with dark rufous 

 hair. 



The antennae in this species are more slender and the 

 ventral surface of the abdomen more thickly pilose than 

 usual, e.g., than in N. elliotti. 



NOMIA CHRYSOPA, Sp. nov. (PI. 4, f. 1 3.) 



Long. 6 mm. c^ . 



Hab. Allahabad {Rothney). 



In the Key {I.e., p. 449) it forms a new group of the 

 species with the abdominal fasciae white ; "<^*. Enclosed 

 space at base of median segment, with stout, oblique 

 keels," not punctured as in N. oxybeloides, nor obscurely 

 transversely striated as in N. rustica. 



Head black; from shortly above the base of the 

 antennae, thickly covered with golden pubescence, behind 

 the eyes with longish, white pubescence; the vertex with 

 longish, fuscous hair, longer and paler behind. Front 

 and vertex closely and strongly punctured, except a small, 

 smooth spot outside the hinder ocelli. Mandibles black; 

 bearing at the base long, pale fulvous hair. The scape 



