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very large. Hind femora not much swollen. Antennae simple. Middle tibiae with a long spine. Wings as 

 in Nomia. 



The affinities of this genus or subgenus are clearly with Nomia from which and Paranomia, and 

 Hoplonomia it may be known by the strongly spined scutellum which is not depressed in the middle. Hoplonomia 

 has the postscutellum spined; but the spines are much shorter and more slender than the scutellar spines in 

 this genus. The body is much more strongly punctured than it is in Nomia.'} 



Nomia quadrituberculata Cam. 

 1905 Paranomia quadrituberculata Cameron, <j>, in: Rec. Albany Mus., Vol. 1, p. 191. 



$. Black, abdomen with 4 white smooth, broad bands; the body closely, strongly punctured, 

 punctuation on the metanotum and abdomen more widely separated and stronger on the rest; scutellum 

 in the centre broadly, roundly depressed, sides being thereby tuberculated ; basal area of metanotum with a 

 row of stout Striae at the base, the rest aciculated, opaque; sides near the apex project into short, somewhat 

 triangulär teeth; tegulae small. The lower part of the front, face and clypeus densely covered with white 

 pubescence; the temples, pleurae and base of abdomen thickly covered with longish white hair; legs covered 

 with white hair; the tarsi bright red, calcaria ruf o-testaceous ; wings hyaline, stigma fuscous, nervures blackish; 

 cubital cellule 2. half the length of the following, smaller than usual, of equal width, recurrent nervure 1 inter- 

 stitial. Antennal flagellum brownish, black above; segment 2 with a smooth, transverse line in the middle. 

 L. 5 mm. 



Kapland, Brak Kloof im Februar. 



Nomia qtiartinae Grib. 

 1884 Nomia quartinae Gribodo, <J, in: Ann. Mus. civ. Genova, Vol. XXI, p. 285, flg. 



d. Nigro-fusca, dense ubique griseo-pilosa, segmentis abdominalibus 2.-6. margine postico decoloratis 

 membranaceis (in exemplaribus recentioribus probabiliter albo-iridescenti-f asciatis) ; aus subhyalinis leniter infuscatis ; 

 tegulis mediocribus decoloratis membranaceis; capite thoraceque densissime subtiliter punctatis opacis; area 

 cordiformi metathoracis transversim arcuato-rugosa ; segmentis abdominis dorsalibus in margine postico leniter 

 impressis, impressione laevi sed opaca, id est perlenissime punctulata; segmenti primi area basali confertissime 

 modice punctata; segmentis sequentibus basi plus vel minus regulariter modice oblique punctatis, interstitiis 

 perlenissime punctulatis opacis; femoribus posticis extus valde incrassatis, intus complanato-subcoucavis, basi 

 leniter tuberculatis ; tibiis posticis valde apice incrassatis, trigonis, extus leniter convexis, intus complanato- 

 convexis; metatarsis posticis elongatis subparallelis ; alarum anticarum vena recurrenti prima interstitiali. L. 10 mm. 



1 d bei Let-Marefiä (Ostafrika). 



Nomia scitula Bingh. 

 1903 Nomia scitula Bingham, d, in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XII, p. 52. 



d. Black, scape of the antennae, apical half of the femora, tibiae and tarsi of the legs pale-yellow; the 



flagellum of the antennae red, apical halves of the 1. — 5. abdominal segments yellowish or ivory- white; the face 



with dense, rest of the head, thorax and a fringe along the apical margins of the abdominal segments with 



somewhat sparse yellowish-white pubescence ; head above, thorax and basal halves of all the abdominal segments 



closely and not very finely punctured, opaque, apical halves of the abdominal segments nearly smooth, very 



minutely transversely rugulose. Head from the front orbicular, vertex rounded, transverse and short; thorax 

 Jenaische Denkschriften. XIV. 13 Schultzo, Forschungsreise in Südafrika. IL 



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