248 HYMENOPTERA. 



dull surface visible between ; metathorax rounded, very rough, the 

 area small, triangular, inconspicuous, bounded by a line; wings yel- 

 lowish-hyaline, with a dark red-brown cloud occupying apex, and 

 a cloud across second submarginal cell and into third ; second s. m. 

 very broad, receiving first r. n. before middle ; abdomen fusiform, 

 very finely punctured, second segment depressed about a third. 



Near to A. carbonaria L. {pilipes Rossi), but the wings are 

 paler basally, the abdomen is more finely punctured, and the 

 legs are not entirely black-haired. The apical ventral seg- 

 ment, as in carbonaria, is emarginate. The A. carbonaria 

 before me is from Sicily, and has the second submarginal cell 

 narrower and more oblique than in cyprica. There is also a 

 strong resemblance to A. morio Brulle, but that has the third 

 antennal joint shorter, the cheeks less developed, the wings 

 much darker, etc. 



Hab. — Cyprus, March 17 (C. Glasz?ier). British Museum. 



Andrena batesiae sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 14 mm., expanse 26 ; hair of thorax above, in- 

 cluding tubercles, upper part of pleura and sides of metathorax, deep 

 fox-red, as in A. nitida ; face with rather dull fulvous hair, forming 

 a conspicuous tuft on each side, but supraclypeal area and scape with 

 black hair ; clypeus very densely punctured, with no smooth line ; 

 process of labrum emarginate ; facial foveae dark coffee-brown, very 

 broad, going below antennae, separated from eye by a practically uni- 

 form narrow band ; antennae black, third joint longer than 4 + 5, but 

 not so long as 4 + 5 + 6 ; lower part of pleura with the hair dusky yel- 

 lowish, but middle and hind coxae with it black ; mesothorax densely 

 punctured ; metathorax very coarsely granular, the area long and very 

 narrow, poorly defined, the sculpture hardly differentiated; hair of 

 anterior femora beneath like that on lower part of pleura, that on inner 

 side of anterior tarsi dull red, otherwise the hair of legs generally is 

 black ; hind spurs uniform ferruginous ; abdomen broad, finely punc- 

 tured, a little dull pale hair on first segment and at sides of base of 

 second, but no evident bands of any sort ; apical fimbria black ; ven- 

 tral segments very dark, faintly reddish ; wings reddish-fuliginous, 

 not so dark as in A. morio, second s. m. broad, receiving first r. n. 

 beyond middle. 



Compared with A. nitida (Dover, England) this is practi- 

 cally identical in all details of structure, and is manifestly 

 very closely allied. It differs, however, by its much darker 

 wings, absence of conspicuous light hair on abdomen, and 

 color of hair of face. It is, no doubt, an insular representa- 



