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flagellum narrowed at the base, slightly, gradually widened towards the apex ; 

 it is distinctly longer than the following 2 united, the following is distinctly 

 shorter than the 4th, 



Andrena punjabensis, sp. nov. 



Black, the clypeus, except for a roundish black spot on either side of the 

 middle and the apical segments of the abdomen, pale yellow, the apical joints of 

 the tarsi fulvous, wings hyaline, the costa and stigma fulvo-testaceous, the 

 nervures darker coloured, the 3rd abscissa of the radius a little longer than the 

 2nd ; the recurrent nervures are received about the same distance from the cubitals, 

 the 2nd near the base of the apical fourth. Vertex and front opaque, shagreened, 

 finely striated below the ocelli. Pro- and mesonotum shining, ^sparsely, weakly 

 punctured ; the metanotum opaque, coarsely shagreened, almost punctured, the 

 basal area not clearly defined. Abdominal segments with narrow, but distinct 

 bands of white pubescence. Flagellum brown, black on top. Calcaria white. 

 The transverse median nervure is received shortly behind the transverse basal. 

 Temples obliquely narrowed. $ , 



Length 7 mm. 



Ferozepore, February. (Nurse.) 



The abdomen is longish-ovate, more narrowed at the apex than at the base ; 

 the apices of the segments under the hair bands are pale lead-coloured. The 

 occiput is not wider than the thorax. Labrum black, fringed laterally by white 

 pubescence, in its centre is a curved transverse furrow. 2nd joint of flagellum 

 not quite so long as the following 2 united. 



Allied to A. satellita, Nurse, which may be known from it by there being a 

 yellow spot on either side of the clypeus and by there being a distinct keel down 

 the middle of metanotum, and the 1st recurrent nervure is received nearer the 

 middle of the cellule. 



Halictus deesanns, sp. nov. 



Black, the basal 2 abdominal segments red, under side of antennal scape 

 reddish brown ; the pubescence white ; the abdominal segments with bands of 

 white depressed pubescence ; wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures fuscous ; 

 the 2nd abscissa of radius a little shorter than the 3rd, the 1st recurrent 

 nervure interstitial with the 2nd transverse cubital nervure ; the 2nd abscissa of 

 cubitus as long as the space bounded by the 2nd transverse cubital nervure and 

 the 2nd recurrent, the 3rd transverse cubital nervure roundly sloped, not very 

 oblique ; area on metanotum with some irregular, more or less curved and 

 oblique strias, the rest of it smooth and shining ; striae do not reach to the top of 

 the apical slope. Anal rima large, not clearly defined, dark rufous. Apex of 

 clypeus broadly and clearly depressed, transverse. The 1st abscissa of the 

 radius is clearly longer than the 2nd. $. 



The $ is similarly coloured ; the alar nervures are paler and the 2nd cubital 

 cellule is smaller apparently. 

 Length 8 mm. 



