132 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



Description of New Species of Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera from Borneo. 



By P. Cameron. 



Anthophila. 

 Nomia raribalteata, sp. nov. 



Black ; the head and thorax densely covered with fulvous 

 pubescence ; the abdomen with five blue, mixed with red, bands: 

 legs black, the wings hyaline, with black stigma and nervures $ . 



Long: 11 mm. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Antenna black, the scape sparsely covered with fulvous 

 hair, the flagellum with a pale down. The front to the ocelli 

 is closely, distinctly and uniformly punctured ; the vertex 

 smooth ; both are thickly covered with long fulvous hair. The 

 face is smooth : its sides are broadly and thickly covered with 

 fulvous hair ; the clypeus is stoutly keeled in the middle, is ob- 

 scurely punctured and thickly covered with fulvous hair. Thor- 

 ax thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. Mesonotum and 

 scutellum opaque, closely and minutely punctured ; the scutel- 

 lar depression is covered with depressed pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; the scutellum sparsely with long blackish hair ; the post- 

 scutellar region thickly with fulvous pubescence. Median seg- 

 ment closely, irregularly punctured and thickly haired; the 

 basal depression is clearly defined behind and is irregularly 

 closely longitudinally striated. Legs black ; the femora and 

 tibiae covered with pale hair ; the tarsi on the under side thickly 

 covered with fulvous pubescence ; the hinder tibiae are nar- 

 rowed at the base and become gradually, but not greatly, 

 thicker towards the apex. The abdomen is smooth, shining and 

 sparsely haired above ; the basal five segments are banded with 

 blue belts, which are largely tinged in the middle with red. 

 The ventral segments are covered with fulvous pubescence ; 

 the last segment is distinctly keeled in the centre. 



