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rufo-testaceous ; 1st and 2nd ventral abdominal segments brownish testa- 

 caous; clypaus bare ; colour of pubescence as follows — on labrum greyish 

 fulvous, on front and cheeks white, on occiput pale fulvous, on thorax 

 above thick rich fulvous, below and at the sides greyish to pale fulvous, 

 at base of 1st abdominal segment pale greyish fulvous ; 1st segment at 

 apex bare, 2nd and 3rd with basal bands narrowed or interrupted in 

 the centre, 4th with broad entire apical band, all of snow-white short 

 pubescence, 4th and 5th segments with short velvety black pubes- 

 cence at base ; abdomen below with fuscous or black pubescence; ante- 

 rior and intermediate legs with greyish fulvous pubescence, except on the 

 intermediate tarsi, where it is of black and grey hairs intermixed ; 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi with white pubescence above, black below • 

 wings sub-hyaline, nervures dark testaceous to black, tegulse rufo- 

 testaceous ; three cubital cells. 



$ Similar, the antennae as long as the whole body, only the basal 

 joint black or blackish brown ; the pubescence on the thorax is somewhat 

 paler fulvous, 2nd to 5th segments with basal bands of snow-white 

 pubescence, the bands somewhat narrowed in the middle ; all the legs 

 with grey pubescence above, below fulvous intermixed with black hairs. 



Long. 11-12 mm. 



Habitat — Deesa ; not uncommon. 



Nearest to Eucera (Tetralonia) punctata (Cam.), but larger, and 

 differs in the colour of the pubescence on the abdomen. 



Eucera (Macrocera) pomona, n. sp. 



9 Head, thorax, and abdomen with the sculpturing hidden by the 

 pubescence ; abdomen shining through the pubescence ; anal rim very 

 finely transversely striate. Black ; calcaria and all the claws at base 

 rufo-testaceous ; abdomen below with all the segments more or less 

 testaceous at the margins; pubescence as follows — on clypeus and 

 labrum short, thick, greyish white ; on front long, grey, with some 

 black hairs along both margins of the eyes and on vertex ; on thorax 

 above greyish, with a fulvous tinge, below grey ; on abdomen, 1st 

 segment long, grey, sparse towards apical margin ; 2nd segment 

 greyish, somewhat sparse, apex with a widely interrupted band of white 

 hairs ; 3rd, 4th and 5th segments velvety black at base, with bands 

 of snow-white hairs on apical margins, the bands thick, that on 3rd 

 segment widely, on 4th segment narrowly interrupted in the middle, 



