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punctate ; head broad, mandibles simple, malar space distinct ; 

 labrum, mandibles (except apex broadly), malar space, clypeus 

 (except upper part) and lateral face marks ending in a point on 

 orbital margin at about level of antennae, all lemon yellow ; antennae 

 ferruginous beneath, black above ; scape rather thick ; third antennal 

 joint slightly longer than fourth above, but shorter than it below ; 

 upper margin of prothorax, tubercles, stripe bordering each side of 

 mesothorax, large spot on anterior part of pleura, two large spots on 

 scutellum, a small short line on postscutellum, and a spot on each 

 side of metathorax, all yellow, variously suffused or margined with 

 red ; scutellum moderately prominent ; teguUe yellow ; wings slightly 

 dusky, strongly so at apex ; stigma rather small, bright ferruginous ; 

 venation ferruginous basally, fuscous apically ; b. n. meeting t. m. ; 

 first s. m. about as large as the other two united ; first r. n. joining 

 second s. m. much beyond middle ; legs red, anterior femora with a 

 black stripe beneath, middle with a broader stripe, hind ones nearly 

 all black behind and beneath, but red at apex and base behind ; apices 

 of tibiae and outer sides of basitarsi yellow ; abdomen finely and 

 closely punctured, all the segments with broad yellow bands, inclined 

 to be edged with red ; basal part of segments black, apical margins 

 brown, yellow band on second segment deeply emarginate in middle ; 

 apical plate yellow, densely and coarsely punctured, entire ; venter 

 with four broad yellow bands, the fourth emarginate on each side. 



Hub. Gyaugtse, 13,000 ft., June, 1901 (H. J. Walton). 

 British Museum. This belongs to the subgenus Holonomada of 

 Robertson. In the tables of Indian species by Nurse and 

 Bingham it runs to N. decorata, but that species has the 

 pubescence whitish and sparse. In Schmiedeknecht's table in 

 • Apidae Europseae,' it runs out at twenty-six on p. 46. Super- 

 ficially, it is not unlike the European A'', sea-fasciata, but it 

 differs in many details. 



Anthophora vidpina ivaltoni, Cockerell. 



Both sexes from Gyangtse, 13,000 ft., June, 1901 (H. J. 

 Walton). The male, to my surprise, has the light hair of head 

 and thorax above, and first abdominal segment a warm red. 

 I think it certainly belongs to lualtoni ; a similar dichroism 

 occurs in the American A. occidentalism but is not sexual; further 

 material may prove that it is also independent of sex in ivaltoni. 

 The male waltoni has the clypeus lemon yellow, with only 

 marginal black dots, instead of the large black patches of 

 vidpina. 



Anthophora khamhana, Ckll., var. atramentata, n. var. 



5 . Hair all black, except segments 2 to 4 of abdomen above 

 (excluding sides), where the hair is bright red as in the type ; and the 

 white subapical tufts beneath, which are retained. A variety analo- 

 gous to the variety schenkii of A. parietina. 



Hab. Khamba Jong, Sikkim, 15-16,000 ft., July 15tb to 

 30th, 1903. British Museum. 



ENTOM. — MAY, 1911. O 



