116 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



ferruginous, black at the apex. Thorax closely covered with 

 fulvous hair; the post-scutellum region densely covered with ful- 

 vous hair ; the mesonotum and scutellum are smooth and shining. 

 The area on the median segment is shining, distinctly bordered 

 behind and irregularly striated, the stria? more widely separated 

 in the middle than laterally ; the rest of the segment is opaque 

 and densely covered with fulvous pubescence. The transverse 

 cubital nervures are paler than usual, this being especially the 

 case with the second. Legs uniformly yellowish-fulvous and 

 thickly haired ; the hair is paler in colour ; the calcaria pallid 

 yellow. Abdomen black : the basal four segments with smooth, 

 shining, bare, bluish bands; the back is smooth and shining; 

 the bisal segment at the base is thickly covered with fulvous 

 hair ; the others are sparsely haired ; the ventral segments are 

 closely punctured ; their apices thickly fringed with fulvous hair. 

 The blue belts on the abdomen are slightly tinged with yellow ; 

 the furrow on the median segment is indistinct ; ihe scape is 

 testaceous at the base ; the second cubital cellule is about 

 one-third of the length of the top of the third ; the third trans- 

 verse cubital nervure is roundly curved ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is interstitial. 



Comes close to A 7 , elegans Sm. which may be known from 

 it by the clypeus being r oarsely punctured, subtuberculate on 

 each side, and with a " central longitudinal depression." 



Nomia leucozonato, sp. nov. 



Black, the basal half of the abdomen above and the ventral 

 surface rufous, the second, third, and fourth segments banded 

 with white on the apex ; the apex of the clypeus rufous ; the legs 

 black, densely covered with long white hair; the wings hyaline, 

 the costa and stigma rufo-testaceous, the nervures paler. 9 . 



Long: 8 mm. 



llab. Uidi, Sarawak. 



Head thickly covered with pale fulvous pubescence, black, 

 the apex of the clypeus broadly rufous ; the clypeus and face 

 strongly, but not very closely, punctured; the front is more 

 sparsely punctured and has a narrow longitudinal keel in the 

 middle. Mandibles rufous, black at the apex. Mesonotum and 

 scutellum minutely and closely punctured ; the post-scutellar 



