Hah. Singapore (0. F. Baler; No. 47Go). 



One specimen, presented by Mr. Baker to the British Museum in 

 1919). This insect agrees with the Japanese type, 0. Ininieralis Lewis, 

 in having extremely short antennae, differing from it in the hii'gei', less 

 prominent eyes, the broader prothorax, which is rounded at the sides, the 

 broader scutellum, and the immaculate elytra. The vei'y short prothorax, 

 etc., separate O. incanus from Gonomorphiis. 



llorsell. 



November, 1020. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF BEES OF THE GENUS SPHECODES. 

 BY K. C. L. PEllKIXS, M.A., D.SC, F.E.S. 



The two species of SpJiecodrs descriljed Ijelow were set aside some 

 years ago as being probably new, but the literature on the subject being 

 so scattered in various pul>licati(nis no satisfactory conclusion was reached. 

 Kecently an extensive and important work liy Dr. Heinhold Meyer lias 

 been jniblished in which all the known species of the genus have been 

 described, and I am unable to identify mine with any of these. Unfor- 

 tunately, 1 have only the male sex of either species. 



Spliecodes kcrsliairi, sj). n. 



Black : the apex of the first and the whole of the second ami third 

 abdominal segments ferruginous. Tai"si subtestaceous, the metatarsi darker, 

 the knee-joints reddish. 



Face in front view very wide, ver\' strongly rounded on the vertex, densely 

 clothed below the antennae and along the marginsof the eyes with whitiBh 

 appressed pubescence, the eyes distinctly convergent. Clypeus very densely , 

 subrugosely punctured ; the front and vertex with excessively dense, reticu- 

 Jately rugose sculpture (produced, no doubt, by dense punctures, which are, 

 however, hardly distinct as such), the surface duller and the sculpture notably 

 tinei' than that of the mesonotum. Antennae rather long, the fifth joint being 

 lightly though quite evidently elongate, longer than the transverse 3rd joint 

 and almost equal to this and the L^nd together; in front the flagellar joints are 

 not flattened or impressed at the base, but are without hair-bands, being convex 

 and pubescent all over. 



Pronotal angles acute and pniminent. Mesoi.otiim Avith very coarse 

 rugose sculpture, due to coarse close punctuies, more or less running into one 

 another, these being much finer at the sides than on the disc ; the edges 

 dividing the punctures, as well as the bottom of the punctures themselves, 

 shining; scutellum with very dense sculpture, like that of the mesonotum, hut 

 evidently less coarse, the punctures being finer than those on the middle of the 

 latter, interior area of the propodeum shining and very coarsely reticulately, 



