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it lacks all red color on the abdomen, except that, at least in 

 the Ceylon specimen, the hind margins of the segments are 

 very narrowly reddish. The form audre?iifoivnis Smith is 

 almost the same, but has the base of the second abdominal 

 segment slightly rufopiceous. A specimen of andreniformis 

 from the Khasia Hills {Sladcn) has the hair on the meta- 

 thorax very light yellowish, whereas in the Ceylon sumatrajia 

 it is white. In the Ceylon specimen the hair fringing the 

 hind margins of the hind tibia and basitarsus is white, 

 whereas in the Khasia Hills andreniformis and a florea from 

 Calcutta {Sladen) it is black. 

 Apis llorea iiasicaiia subsp. nov. 



Worker. First two abdominal segments and base of third 

 bright ferruginous, rest of abdomen black, without evident 

 basal hair-bands ; hair fringing hind tibia and basitarsus be- 

 hind, and the tibia in front, pure white ; scutellum entirely 

 black ; hair of metathorax white ; marginal cell with no ap- 

 pendicular nervure ; stigma ferruginous. 



Habitat. — Nasik, Western India {E. Comber). British Mu- 

 seum. This is evidently different from the form found at 

 Calcutta, which I take to be genuine A. florea. 



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