NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN HYMEN OPTERA. 123 



Fuinily Apid^, Auct. 

 13. Spliecodes Indicus, sp. nov., pi. A, f. 10. 



$. Head closely und finely punctured ; antennae elongate ; somewhat 

 moniliform ; thorax anteriorly shining sparsely ; the median segment 

 densely and very coarsely punctm-ed, the pmictures running into reticu- 

 lations, the segment rounded above, the apex truncate, and margined 

 and hearing a medial longitudinal carina ; legs and abdomen smooth, 

 polished and shining, rather finely and delicately punctured, a constric- 

 tion between the 1st and 2nd segments of the latter, with the margin 

 oi" the 2nd segment depressed. Jet black,, the front, the clypeus, 

 cheeks, sides of the thorax beneath wings, and the legs covered with a 

 thin silvery-white pubescence, most dense on the clypeus and front of 

 the head below the base of the antenme, very sparse on the legs, where 

 on the tarsi it turns into a ferruginous-brown colour ; wings hyaline at 

 base, sub-fuscous on their apical two-thirds, nervures and teguloe black. 



^. Length 7 ; exp. 15 mm. 



14. Halictas asperatus^ sp. nov. 



9. Head above, thorax and abdomen very minutely and- densely 

 punctured ; the face on each side of the clypeus and along the inner 

 orbits to as high as the base of the antenna? rugosely striate, the strite 

 irregular and obliquely divergent ; clypeus finely and somewhat sparsely 

 punctured, anteriorly transverse ; median segment short, abruptly trun- 

 cate posteriorly ; the cordate space at base broad, concave, and with fine 

 oblique divergent strite ; abdomen massive, longer than the head and 

 thorax united. Black, the apical margins of the basal three abdominal 

 segments reddish-brown ; the head, thorax, legs and transverse narrow 

 bands, on the apical margins of the 1-4 segments of the abdomen, 

 with hoary-white pubescence ; the pubescence inclines to fuscous on the 

 head and face in front, is very bright and glittering with a yellow tinge 

 on the legs, and is snow-white on the abdomen ; anal rima reddish-brown, 

 with a fringe on each side of fuscous hairs ; wings hyaline, very faintly 

 fuscous on their apical margins, the tegdie and nervures brown. 



9. Length 11 ; exp. 23 mm. 

 Hah. Simla. 



This large and handsome species can be easily distinguished hx its 

 remarkablv rugose face. 



