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tive of nitida. Compared with A. thoracica, var. assimilis 

 Rad., it differs by the color of the spurs and some other 

 details ; I have not seen assimilis, but batesice is certainly 

 not a variety of thoracica. It also resembles A. pectoralis 

 Perez, but differs in a number of details. 



Hab. — Cyprus {Miss Bates). British Museum. 



Andrena cameroni n. n. 



Andrena caroli Cameron (not of Perez, 1895). Simla. 

 Allied to A. mephistophelica Cam. 



Andrena sinensis sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 14 mm. ; thorax densely covered with bright fox- 

 red hair ; abdomen black, shining, not banded or covered with hair, 

 the apical fimbria black ; wings very dark, with a violaceous tint ; 

 pleura (except uppermost part) and pectus with black or sooty hair ; 

 hair of head black except on occiput, where it is fulvous ; hair of legs 

 black; process of labrum broad, shallowlyemarginate ; clypeus densely 

 punctured but shining, without a smooth line ; facial foveae broad, 

 very dark purplish-brown ; third antennal joint longer than 4 + 5, but 

 not so long as 4+ 5 -+- 6 ; metathorax very coarsely granular, the area 

 scarcely distinguishable ; second abdominal segment depressed fully 

 two-fifths. 



In Schmiedeknecht's table (Apidae Europaese) this runs 

 to A. thoracica var. assimilis Rad., except that the hind 

 spurs are uniform rich dark ferruginous. In size and super- 

 ficial appearance it is exactly like A. batesice, except for the 

 fact that the wings are dark right to the base, while in 

 batesice they are pallid basally. Upon close comparison the 

 following differences from batesice are apparent : hair of face 

 all black or sooty ; abdomen without pale hair near base, 

 and considerably less punctured. On the first segment and 

 basal half of second the punctures are small and scattered, 

 while on apical half of second they are still fewer and ex- 

 tremely minute. In basesice they are much more dense, and 

 are so all over second segment. 



Hab.— Tientsin, China, June 15, 1906 (F. M. Thomson). 

 British Museum. 



China must be rich in Andrena, but only two (vitiosa Sm. 

 and anthracina Mor.) seem to have been described. Four 

 others have been described by Morawitz from Mongolia. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. (32) AUGUST, 1910. 



