Manchester JMiinoirs, Vol xlii. (1898), 7V^. 11. 71 

 NOMIA MACULITARSIS, Sp. nov. (PI. 4, f. 12.) 



Long. 8 mm. $ . 



//rt^. Poona ( WrougJiton). 



Agrees with .V. floralis Sm. and N. pilipes Sm. in 

 having the base of the abdomen red ; only the females of 

 these two species arc known, but it can hardly be the $ of 

 either of them. It comes nearest in those characters 

 common to both sexes to N. floralis, from which it may 

 be separated as follows : 



Median segment with a median vertical keel, the area 

 at base densely punctured ; the legs rufo-piceous. 



N, floralis Sm. 



Median segment without a median vertical keel, the 

 basal area distinctly striolated ; the legs black, the tarsi 

 rufous. N. maculitarsis. 



N. pilipes Sm. has the basal two and the basal two- 

 thirds of the third abdominal segments pale-red, and the 

 basal area of the median segment is "very coarsely 

 punctured." 



The head in front from shortly below the ocelli 

 densely covered with fulvous hair ; the front and vertex 

 shining, impunctate. Mandibles black, striated ; the strise 

 curved at the top. The propleurae shining, impunctate, 

 the apex only covered with long, white hair ; the meso- 

 and meta-pleurae thickly covered with long, white hair. 

 Wings hyaline, the costa, stigma, and nervures pale 

 fuscous ; the second cubital cellule at the top not half the 

 length of the third at the top ; the first recurrent nervure 

 is received shortly beyond the middle of the cellule. 

 Abdomen shining, the base and the sides covered with 

 white hair ; the basal segment entirely red, closely and 

 finely punctured ; the base and sides of the second rufous, 

 the rest of it piceous ; the apices of the second and follow- 

 ing segments smooth, silvery white ; the ventral surface 

 entirel) red. Legs black, the tarsi i)ale rufous, the hinder 



