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NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN IIYMENOPTERA. 



APIDjE. 



By Major C. G. Nurse, 113th Infantry. 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society, 3\st March 1904.) 



In the followiug paper I have followed the generic nomenclature of 

 Schmiedeknecht and Friese in their Apidce Euro pee. This in some 

 instances differs from that adopted by Bingham in his Vol. I, Hymen op- 

 tera, of the Fauna of India Series. To follow the latter would doubtless 

 have been more convenient for those who devote their attention to the 

 Indian fauna only, but as the generic nomenclature of the former authors 

 soems to be in accordance with the generally accepted rules, I thought 

 it best to follow in their footsteps, more especially as this nomenclature 

 seems to have been followed by most European Hymenopterists since 

 the publication of their work. 



My collecting during the past two summers has been entirely confined 

 to the neighbourhood of Quetta and Peshin. As the fauna of Baluchis- 

 tan is chiefly palearctic in character, and is closely allied to that of Central 

 Asia and Eastern Europe, many of the species I obtained have been de- 

 scribed by Morawitz, Fedtschenko and others. With a view to making 

 the list of species which have occurred within British Indian limits as 

 complete as possible, I have included below all the species which I 

 have obtained which have not been previously recorded from India, whe- 

 ther entirely new species, or additions to the fauna of British India. 



Andrena. 



This genus is well represented in Baluchistan, and the majority of the 

 species obtained appear to be new. In addition to those described 

 below, I obtained, either from Kashmir or Baluchistan, the following 

 European species : — 



A. cineraria (Linn.) ; fairly common in Kashmir. 



A. pilipes (Fabr.) ; very common at all elevations in Kashmir. 



A. spim'gera (Kirby) ; common at Quetta in the spring at fruit tree 

 blossoms. 



A. convexiuscula (Kirby); common both in Kashmir and Baluchistan. 



A. tenuis (Mor.) ; Peshin ; apparently not common. 



A. parvula (Kirby) ; common in Baluchistan in the spring. 



