NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN HYMENOPTEBA 12^ 



segment, and base of 1st abdominal segment, fuscous-white, on the 

 cheeks, pectus, legs in front, and abdomen it is snow-white, forming on 

 the last narrow transverse bands above and below on segments 1 — 5 

 pubescence on the tarsi, and the tibial calcaria and apical joints of the 

 tarsi, castaneous ; wings hyaline, tegute testaceous, uervures dark 

 brown. 



$. Length l^',e:cp. 28 mm. 



Hah. Simla. 



27. Apis kstacea., sp. nov, 



9 . H«ad, thorax, and abdomen smooth, dull, impunctate, covered on 

 ihe head and thorax with a very thin sparse pubescence ; clypeus very 

 slightly convex, its anterior margin truncate, front with a conspicuous 

 medial furrow from the base of the antennae to below the anterior 

 ocellus, where it forks and passes in Y-fashion to behind the posterior 

 ocelli ; median segment rounded posteriorly, with a medial longitudinal 

 forrow ; abdomen massive, longer than the head and thorax united; head, 

 flagellum of the antennae, except the basal joint, and the whole of the 

 thorax and median segment, castaneous brown ; the scape and basal 

 joint of the flagellum of the autennse, the legs and the abdomen, pule 

 honey-yellow, the whole insect having a pelucid semi-transparent 

 appearance, pubescence snow-white ; wings hyaline, vitreous, tegulaj 

 and nervures honey-yellow. 



9. Length 9; £a'p. 8 mm. 



Hah . Deesa. 



Knowing the extreme variability of the three common species of 

 honey bees found in India, it is with no little hesitation I describe and 

 figure this remarkable form sent me by Captain Nurse. It is so differ- 

 ent from any specimen oi Apis indica or of A. florea that I have ever 

 come across that I venture to describe it as new. It is to be hoped 

 that Captain Nurse will be able to find a comb of the species, and 

 procure the queen and the drones. 



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