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that of tropical continental Asia, but contains in the mountains 

 a distinct palnearctic element. As Friese has remarked, there 

 is no particular affinity with the bee-fauna of Japan ; nor is 

 there any evident Philippine element. 



Ceratina unicolor, Friese, 1911. 



Described from the female only. Thirteen specimens from 

 Formosa (no special locality given) enable me to add some 

 details. 



2 . Varies greatly in size ; length, 9 to 11 mm. 



(? . Length, Ci-8| mm. ; resembles the female except in the 

 usual sexual marks ; face-markings pale yellow or ochreous, including 

 clypeus except broad upper and lateral borders, a small supra- 

 clypeal mark (often reduced to a minute dot), broad bean-shaped 

 lateral face- marks, the greater part of labrum, and usually a small 

 spot on each mandible ; anterior femur, tibia, and basitarsus each 

 with a yellow stripe ; apical segment of abdomen broad, little pro- 

 duced at end, where it is truncate and subemarginate, 



AntJiojjhora iirens, n. sp. 



(? . Length 12-15 mm., robust, black, with the head and thorax 

 above, and the pleura, covered with very bright fox-red hairs, mixed 

 with black except on pleura and upper part of cheeks ; front with 

 hair mixed red and black, lower part of face with coarse black hair, 

 under side of head with long pure white hair, under side of thorax 

 with creamy-white hair ; eyes red-brown ; inner oi^bits parallel, 

 gently concave above; tongue very long (fully 11 mm.); maxillary 

 palpi long and slender, with the second joint at least as long as the 

 third to sixth together, the following ones successively shorter, tlie 

 sixth extremely small ; paraglossai about 2 mm. long, sharply pointed, 

 not hairy ; labial palpi very long, with the two apical joints extremely 

 minute ; antennae black, the third joint apically, and the fourtli 

 joint, slightly reddish beneath ; third joint a little longer than fourth 

 and fifth combined, fourth much broader than long ; scape with a 

 large yellowish-white patch in front ; clypeus rugose, feebly keeled in 

 middle ; labrum large, broader than long ; face-markings creamy- 

 white, as follows : lower margin of clypeus, a narrow median stripe, 

 and broad anterior corners, a transverse supraclypeal band (broadly 

 angulate in middle above), triangular lateral marks (filling space be- 

 tween clypeus and eye, nearly to top of clypeus), labrum (except 

 narrow margin, and the usual liasal spots), and basal half or more of 

 mandibles ; mandibles bidentate ; malar space practically absent ; 

 mesothorax closely punctured ; tegular light ferruginous ; wings 

 dusky ; nervures piceous ; legs black, with fulvous hair on outer side 

 and black on inner, on hind tarsi all black except a small fulvous tuft 

 at extreme base ; a tuft of white hair at apex of hind tibia? ; spurs 

 very large and long ; middle tarsi normal ; abdomen black with lino 

 black pubescence, first segment with scattered red hair, conspicuous 

 at sides, and forming a very narrow apical band ; second with an 

 apical band of red hair, broad and dense at sides, narrow and evane- 



