AKDHENA. 443 



777. Andrena rothneyi. (PI. Ill, fig. 8.) 



Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli, 1897. 



5 . Head in front and on the occiput, thorax on the sides, the 

 legs, and apical three segments of the abdomen with longish soft 

 pubescence ; head and thorax under the pubescence (doselv and 

 finely punctured ; abdomen smooth, opaque ; median segment with 

 a large triangular depressed space at base finely rugulose, and 

 hearing a short medial longitudinal furrow. Black ; the basal 

 two segments of the abdomen honey-yellow ; antennas obscurely 

 alutaceous beneath, the pubescence on the head and thorax fuscous ; 

 the posterior femora and tibia) each with a dense floceus of whitish 

 golden hairs ; the apical segments of the abdomen, especially on 

 the sides, with fimbriae of whitish pubescence; wings hyaline, 

 nervures and tegulso dark testaceous. 



Hah. Mussooree. Length 10-11 ; e.rp. 20 mm. 



778. Andrena communis, Smiih, Neio Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 50, 5 ; Dull. 



Turr. Cat. x, p. 130. 

 Andreua maligna, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. xli, 1897. 



2 . Head closely, thorax more sparsely punctured, the punc- 

 tures running into fine obscure striae on the front of the head ; 

 abdomen very minutely and closely punctured ; head transverse, 

 flat, and slightly emargiuate posteriorly ; clypeus slightly convex, 

 almost circular; median segment depressed, rounded at apex, the 

 enclosed space at base bread, concave, densely and finely punc- 

 tured ; abdomen broad, depressed, and oval. Black ; the apical 

 margin narrowly of the 1st, the whole of the 2nd, and the basal 

 margin of the 3rd segment red ; the antennae and legs obscurely 

 piceous ; the pubescence on the head and the marginal fimbriae ou 

 abdominal segments 2-4 white ; the sides of tlie thorax, the 

 median segment at the sides and densely at apex, the legs, and 

 apical two abdominal segments with longish fuscous pubescence ; 

 wings hyaline and iridescent. 



Hab. "Mussooree, 7000 feet. $ . Length 9 ; exj^. 17 ram. 



779. Andrena mephistophelica, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. xli, 

 1897. 



2 . Head and thorax densely, abdomen more thinly pubescent ; 

 median segment with thick long tufts of hair on the sides; head 

 about the ocelli and vertex longitudinally striate; mesonotum, 

 scutellum, and postscutellum under the pubescence sparsely, and 

 median segment densely punctured ; the enclosed triangular space 

 at the base not well-defined in the $ , coarsely punctured in the S ; 

 abdomen, where devoid of pubescence, smooth, finely, not very 

 closely punctured. Black, the pubescence whitish yellow; the 

 posterior mai'gin of the basal abdominal segment and the basal and 

 apical margins of segments 2-4 narrowly honey-yellow ; the margins 

 of the segments fringed with whitish hairs ; wings hyaline, lightly 

 fnscescent, nervures and tegular dark brown. 



Ilah. Mussooree. $ d- Laujth 9-12; e.p^). 20-22 mm. 



