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Show 1896.] HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 451 Genus NOMIA, Latreille. 292. NOMIA CAPITATA, Smith. Nomia capitata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 54, 1 8 . Pundaloya (Green coll.). 293. NOMIA CARINATA, Smith. Nomia carinata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 57, 8 2 - 294. NOMIA CHALYBEATA, Smith. Nomia chalybeata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, 59, 14 $ 8, pi. ii. f. 5 8 • Pundaloya (Green coll.). 295. NOMIA QUADRIDENTATA, Smith. Nomia quadridentata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc 1875, 58,11 $ c? , pi. ii. f. 6 6* • Pundaloya (Green coll.). 296. NOMIA RUSTICA, Westwood. Nomia rustica, Westw. apud Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. i. 90, 21c? ; Walk. Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc 1863, 25. 297. NOMIA VINCTA, Walker. Nomia vincta, Walk. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, v. (1860), 305; Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, cb. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 25. Genus HALICTUS, Latreille. 298. HALICTUS AGRESTIS, Smith. Halictus agrestis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. i. 61, 72 $ ; Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 386, 2. Pundaloya (Green coll.). 299. HALICTUS AMCENUS, sp. nov. 2 . L. 8 millim. Exp. 14 millim. Black, the head, thorax in front, and the basal segment of the abdomen piceous; wings sordid hyaline; legs with glistening fulvous pubescence, the tarsi light testaceous. The head finely and closely punctured, and covered with a thin fulvous pubescence; the clypeus broad, its anterior margin fringed with long fulvous hairs and marked with a few deep coarse punctures, the space above it convex, from which a short perpendicular carina runs up between the base of the antennae; the front of the face subconcave; the ocelli in a broad triangle on the vertex; the antennae piceous, lighter on the scape in front. Thorax, the mesothorax above broad, convex, finely and closely 29* |
