CRIORRHINA. i^85 



Besides the iniiiiicry of the bees by G. -imitator, it itself is 

 closely resembled by a large (Estrid, PortscJiinslia przewaJslyi, 

 Ports.* In size and coloration the CEstrid is almost indistinguish- 

 able at a short distance from both the Criorrhivia and the Bomhi. 



2\\). Criorrliiua vivida, sp. nov. 



5 . l^ead : frons black, \\ ith face gradually \\ idening ; at 

 vertex from | to \ of head, at level of antennas distinctly less 

 than \ ; frons and upper part of face a little grey-dusted, 

 but nearly bare and shining at vertex atid on a transverse 

 space reaching from eye to eye at base of antennae. Frons with 

 fine black iiairs, longer on vertex; long bright yellow post- 

 vertical hairs ; ocelli conspicuous, ruby-red ; tip of frons orange- 

 yellow. Antenn£e brownislr-orange, tip of 1st joint blackish. 

 Epistome directed only moderately forwards, about as long as 

 height of eves, shining dark mahogany-brown, bare. Proboscis 

 black, distinctly longer than head. Occiput ash-grey, with short 

 yellow and black hairs intermixed behind vertical nuirgin, and 

 moderately long blackish-brown hairs on lower part. Thorax: 

 ground-colour anteriorly grey, with yellowish-grey dust and 

 bright yellow pubescence, followed by black pubescence; hind 

 margin with yellow or orange-yellow pubescence; scutellum with 

 yellow pubescence, all the pubescence long and dense. Abdomen'. 

 ground-colour of 1st and of basal lialf of :2nd segment ash-grey, 

 with i)ale yellow pubescence; rest of 2nd segment and greater 

 part of 3rd black, witli concolorous pubescence ; rest of abdomen 

 yellow-dusted, with orange-red pubescence which encroaches a 

 little on 3rd segment ; all pubescence very long and dense. 

 Venter shining black, with fine, whitish-yellow pubescence and 

 black pubescence towards tip. Lerjs : femora black except the 

 tips, which, with the rest of tlielegs, are orange-brown ; the tibiae 

 rather darker, the tarsi rather paler. Pubescence of femora 

 mainly black except some fine pale hairs on under side, that of rest 

 of leg's almost microscopic. Win;/s very pale grey, just perceptibly 

 suffused over divergeiu-e of 2iid and 3rd veins ; stigu)a pale 

 yellow ; lialteres dull orange. 



Lenr/tli, lo mm. 



Described from a single {ti/pe) $ from Kashmir, vi. 1001 (Col. 

 Nurse), presented to the British Museum. A 2 i'l the British 

 Museum from N.W. India in bad condition may be identical, but 

 the pubescence of the anterior part of the tiiorax is wholly black, the 

 ground-colour of t'ue apical third of the abdomen is more orange- 

 red than yellow, and the orange-red pubescenco is more extensive. 



Two j 6 in the same collection from the Eunjit Valley, 

 Sikkiui, V. 1894 (C/»Y/7<a»)) represent, 1 think, the male sex of 

 vivida or a closely allied new species. The epistome is thickly 

 yellow-dusted on upper half, sharply defined from the hare shining 



* For description and notes, sc-c p. |()"_'. 



