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ON SOME UNDESCRIBED BEES AND WASPS CAPTURED BY 

 LIEUT.-COL. C. G.NUK3E IN INDIA. 



BY P. CAMERON. 

 ANTHOPHILA. 



ffnlictus simJartiftis, sp. nov. 



Black ; the head and thorax thickly covered with white pubescence and closely 

 punctured; the area on the median segment at the base is irregularly striated; 

 the striae straight in the middle, oblique at the sides ; abdomen long and 

 slender, smooth, shining impunctate, the segments not depressed nor constricted ; 

 legs black, the calcaria white, the apex of the clypeus broadly yellow. ^ 



Length, 7-8 mm. 



Hub. —Simla. 



Antennae if anything, longer than the abdomen, black; the flagellum in part 

 brownish beneaih and the joints are slightly dilated below. The labrum and 

 clyp-us are covered thickly with white pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus is 

 broadly lemon-yellow; the eyes are long and distinctly converge below; the 

 hinder ocelli are separated from each other by a much greater distance than 

 they are fiom the eyes. Thorax closely punctured; there is a narrow longitudi- 

 nal furrow on the sides of the mesonotum. The striaa on the median segment 

 are irregular, especially those in the middle. Logs black, the apices of the tarsi 

 pale, the calcaiia white, the forelegs are piceous in front, (hey are thickly 

 covered with whiie hair, which is thickest on the tarsi. Abdomen long ; the 

 basal ii segments together areas long as the head and thorax united, it is 

 smooth and shining, the basal segments are narrowly brownish at the apex. 

 Wings clear hyalme, the stigma and nervures aie dark fuscous; the 3id 

 cubital cellule ;it the top is shortly, but distinctly, narrower than the 2nd ; 

 tegulse black, piceous in the middle. 



Anilreua tiriina sp. nov. 



Black; the head covered with long white hair, the pro and mesonotum wiih the 

 scutellum thickly covered with long bright fulvous hair; Ihe basal segment of 

 the abdomen coveied with long white hair, the apices of the 2nd Srd and 4th 

 segmsnts banded with white pubescence, the apical segments above thickly 

 covei-ed with long, plumose, pale fulvous hair; the legs thickly covered with 

 white hair, the hair on the underside of the metatarsus has a fulvous tinge ; 

 the wings clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures are blackish. $ 



Leng.h 8-'.i mm. 



IJab — Simla. 



Autenaae entirely black ; clypeus shining, covered with longi^h white hair, 

 the apex widaly depressed almost furrowed and b.oadly rounded. The labrum 

 ii obliquely naivowed towards th3 apex, the apex in the middle is loundly and 

 dicply incised, the incision forming almost a semicircle; it is smooth and 

 sh.umg With the sides and apex fr.nged with lonj puli golden hair. Mandibles 

 black. piC3ons at the apex ; their lower a.de fringed with pale ha.rs. 

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