250 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



pro thorax, the postscutellum, the metathorax and the flanks clothed 

 with black pubescence which on the postscutellum and the meta- 

 thorax is tipped with hoary white ; the pectus black sparsely punc- 

 tured and clothed rather sparingly with scattered black hairs ; the 

 wings at base fulvo-hyaline, the apical margins of both wings 

 broadly bordered dusky ; legs black with black pubescence, the cal- 

 caria and claws dark chestnut brown, the basal joint of the posterior 

 tarsi clothed with deep ferruginous red pubescence. Abdomen black, 

 covered above and below with a rich dark ferruginous red pubescence. 



This species is closely allied to M. fraterna, Smith, from which, 

 however, apart from its considerably larger size, it differs conspi- 

 cuously in the colour of the pollen brush. In the present species this is 

 of a rich glistening ferruginous red ; in M. fraterna it is golden 

 yellow. 



Minor differences are, the shape of the clypeus and mandibles and 

 the colour of the posterior pair of legs, which in M. fraterna have 

 the femora and tibial inwardly and the tarsi fulvous. 



The type specimen of this insect I captured at Tavoy in October. 

 Subsequently I found it frequenting with other hymenoptera the 

 wet sands on the banks of streams in the Thaungyeen valley along 

 the Siamese frontier. 



23. Anthophora brooki^e, n. sp. 



Habitat : Kumaon. 



Female. : Length 7 lines: expanse 13 lines. 



Description : $ Head black finely punctured ; mandibles yellow- 

 ish white, their tips ferruginous ; labrum produced yellowish white 

 with two minute spots at its base and its anterior margin narrowly 

 black ; clypeus yellowish white, slightly convex ; a raised carina 

 vertically down its centre, with two oblong large black maculae, one 

 on either side ; the clypeus and labrum studded with black hairs ; 

 antennas pitch black ; the vertex cheeks and front clothed with ful- 

 vous pubescence. Thorax black, densely clothed above and below 

 with rich fulvous pubescence ; wings hyaline, tegulae and nervures 

 testaceous ; legs black clothed inwardly with black, and outwardly 

 with fulvous pubescence, the tarsi of a testaceous brown. Abdomen 

 black, very thinly covered above with fulvous pubescence fading to 

 silky white along the margins of the segments, thus forming trans- 



