NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN IIYMENOPTEIIA. 550 



apical band, 2nd to 4th segments with hands of greyish pubescence, 

 anal fimbria with a golden tinge ; pubescence on legs, and floccns 

 greyish, inclining to fulvous or golden on the tibise and tarsi, especially 

 on the inside of the latter ; abdomen below almost bare, with some 

 longish pubescence on the apical margins of segments ; wings hyaline, 

 very slightly and narrowly infuscated at apex ; nervures and stigma 

 testaceous, tegulse dark testaceous ; the 1st recurrent nervure is 

 received into the 2nd cubital cell past its middle. 



$ Similar, slighter, the pubescence on clypeus and front usually with 

 a fulvous tinge, antennse with the 2nd and 3rd joints of the flagellnm 

 subequal ; the basal abdominal segment is usually more or less black, 

 and the amount of red on the 3rd segment varies considerably in 

 different specimens ; the infuscation of the wings at apes is less than 

 in the 9 . 



Long. 9 11 — 13 mm. $ 8 — 10 mm. 



Habitat — Quetta ; common, especially in lucerne fields. 



Of the Indian species this is most nearly allied to A. mollis, but is 

 larger and more pubescent. Of the European species it appears to-be 

 nearest to A. alpina (Mor.), but may be distinguished from that species 

 by the 1st recurrent nervure being received distinctly beyond the middle 

 of the 2nd cubital cell. 



Andrena peshinica, n. sp. 



9 $ Head and thorax finely and closely, abdomen minutely and 

 very closely, punctured ; lamina at base of labrum short, broad, transverse 

 at apex ; the pubescence almost entirely hides the sculpturing of the 

 head and thorax. Black • 1st and 2nd abdominal segments (some • 

 times only the base of the latter) both above and below dark red ; claws 

 and calcaria rufo-testaceous ; pubescence thick and white, forming 

 broad bands on abdominal segments 1 — 4, scopa and anal fimbria white, 

 the pubescence on the tarsi slightly inclining to flavons in some lights ; 

 wings hyaline, their apices very lightly infuscated ; nervures and tegulse 

 dark testaceous. 



Long. 9 10 — 11 mm. $ -8 — 9 mm. 



Habitat — Peshin ; Quetta ; fairly common. 



Not very near to any other Indian species, but allied to A. eversmanni 

 (Rad.). It differs in having the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments in 

 both sexes rod ; the nervures also arc dark tostaceous, not black. 



