NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN IIYMENOPTERA. 581 



that on 5th segment widely interrupted, but less widely than the band 

 on the 5th segment ; on 6th segment sparse and blackish, white lat- 

 erally ; ventral segments at apex ciliated with greyish, 4th and 5th 

 segments with white hairs ; on all the legs grey above, on anterior tibiae 

 balow inclining to fulvous, on intermediate tibiee below, and on poste- 

 rior tibice and tarsi below black ; wings hyaline, three cubital cells, the 

 1st recurrent nervure is received into the 2nd cubital cell near its 

 outer angle ; nervures and tegulse black. 



$ More slenderly built; antenna? when thrown back not quite 

 reaching the apex of abdomen. Black ; the centre of the clypeus yellow 

 calcaria and base of claws rufo-testaceous, ventral segments obscurely 

 testaceous at margins ; pubescence as follows — on head similar to that 

 of 9 , but on clypeus and labrum very long silky white, almost con- 

 cealing the yellow of clypeus ; on thorax and first two abdominal seg- 

 ments grey ; on remaining segments black, with, some long white hairs 

 laterally ; all the legs with greyish pubescence, intermixed with some 

 black hairs. 



Long. 9 14 mm. $ 12 mm. 



Habitat — Quetta ; extremely common at fruit tree blossoms in March. 

 The males seem to largely outnumber the females. 



This species is near to Eucera vernalis (Mor.). The 9 , however, can 

 be distinguished by the white apical bands on the abdominal segments 

 boing interrupted, and the $ by the labrum being black and not yellow. 

 I have a large number of specimens, and they seem remarkably constant 

 in the colouring of the pubescence. 



EuOERA (MaCROCBRA) CASSANDRA, n. sp. 



9 Clypeus closely and somewhat coarsely punctured, scutellum 

 closely and finely, median segment somewhat rugosely, punctured, 

 remainder of sculpturing of head and thorax hidden by the pubescence ; 

 abdomen with the bases of segments 1 — 4 closely and finely punctured, 

 their apices depressed, and except the 1st segment, which is bare at 

 apex, having broad apical bands of thick, short, greyish, depressed pubes- 

 cence. Black ; the mandibles at base, and clypeus, except its anterior 

 margin, bright yellow ; labrum and antennas piceous or rufo-piceous, 

 the former sometimes yellowish at base ; anterior margin of clypeus, and 

 apical joints of tarsi, more or less rufescent ; apical margins of abdominal 

 segments pale testaceous, but the colour, except in the 1st segment, 

 hidden by the pubescent bands ; calcaria pale ; the lateral and apical 



