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thorax, margins of the scutellum and the sides of the metathorax 
covered with a dense short ochraceons pubescence, disk of the thorax 
thinly sprinkled with short black hairs, posterior tibiæ obscurely ferru¬ 
ginous, tarsi ferruginous ; legs covered with bright golden-yellow pube¬ 
scence; wings subhyaline, nervures ferruginous, tegulæ yellow with a 
fuscous stain in the middle. Abdomen obscurely chalybeous, closely 
punctured, 2 basal segments strongly so, apical margins of the segments 
with smooth shining narrow blue fasciæ. 
cf . — Closely resembling the 5 , but with the legs black, the 
posterior femora incrassate, tibiæ narrow at their base and broadly 
dilated at their apex, which, as well as the calcaria, are pale testaceous. 
This species closely resembles a species from N.-China N. chaly¬ 
be ata Westw., from which it is readily distinguished by the form the 
4. ventral segment, which is notched in the middle, rounded and then 
emarginate with the lateral angles rounded ; in the species from China 
the margin is arched and fringed with fulvous pubescence. 
The cf of this species is distinguished by having 2 acute spines 
on the postscutellum.» 
cf 5 Key Eilanden und Kalidupa Buton, Kühn leg. 
30. Nomia opulenta Sm. 
1864. — Nomia opulenta cf Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. VIII. p. 91 n. 3. 
« cf . — Nigra ; capite thoraceque punctatis, opacis ; abdomine nitido, 
segmentis ad marginem apicalem cæruleo-viridibus pulcliriter ornatis. 
Long. 4 lines (= 8 3 A mm.). 
cf . — Black : face, sides of the thorax and beneath, the meta¬ 
thorax and legs with a cinereous pubescence ; the collar and postscutel¬ 
lum with dense short white pubescence ; the antennae slightly fulvous 
beneath; the wings subhyaline, their apical margins clouded, the ner¬ 
vures testaceous, tegulæ pale testaceous; legs rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 
■smooth, shining, finely and closely punctured; the ajfical margins of 
the segments with fasciæ of very bright blue-green, changing in different 
lights ; beneath rufo-testaceous. 
Morty Island.» 
This insect so closely resembles the N. concinna from Celebes and 
Ceram, that I suspect it may be the true cf of that species ; that which 
I have described as being so is probably a distinct species ! 
