446 APiD^. 



anterior and intermediate legs and pectus ; the transverse bands 

 on the abdomen white ; wings hyahne, nervures and tegulae 

 testaceous. 



Hah. Mussooree. § . Length 12 ; e.rji. 22 mm. Type in coll. 

 E-othney. 



This species is a broader stouter insect with more ample wings 

 than the majority of the species of Andrena. 



'i'61. Andrena mollis, Smith, New Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 50, $ ; Ball. 

 Torr. Cat. x, p. 138. 



5 d" • Somewhat resembling A. ton-ida, but the puncturing on 

 the head and thorax very much finer and closer ; median segment 

 without the Y-shaped furrow, a deep broad groove at base above 

 longitudinally rugose, the apex truncate, the sides rounded and 

 highly polished, the apex with longish pubescence ; the abdomen 

 shorter, more broadly oval. Black, the legs and abdomen pale honey- 

 Yellow ; the coxaj, trochanters, and femora at base of the anterior 

 and intermediate legs, with the apex of the intermediate tibiae also, 

 and the posterior coxae, trochanters, femora above, and base of the 

 tibiae fuscous black ; the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments with 

 lateral black maculae, the 3rd segment with a ti'ansverse broad 

 fascia in the middle above, and the 4th and following segments 

 black ; pubescence as in A. torrida, but fulvous golden ; wings 

 hyaline, very slightly fuscescent. 



Var. AVith a lateral black macula on the 2nd abdominal segment 

 only, the 3rd and 4th segments with transverse black bands in the 

 middle, the 5th and apical segments with a greenish tint ; or the 

 2nd and 3rd segments with lateral black maculae, the 4th with a 

 transverse black band at base, the following segments greenish ; or 

 the legs and abdomen entirely honey-yellow, the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments with lateral maculae, and the 5th with a transverse band 

 at base black. 



Hab. Bombay; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim. $ d , Length 

 8-10 ; e.vp. 15-19 mm. 



788. Andrena harrietae, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely pubescent, the vertex 

 of the head, the 1st abdominal segment and base of the 2nd 

 punctured and covered with only a few scat- 

 tered hairs ; head subtriangular, the inner 

 p V^^^fc=^^^E orbits parallel ; eyes narrowly oval, the ocelli 



large, prominent, in a curve on the vertex. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen under the pubes- 

 cence black ; the clypeus, front, thorax an- 

 teriorly, and sides and apex of the median seg- 

 Fiff. 140.— Andrena ^^^^ clothed with long fuscous grey pubes- 

 harrietce, §. %. cence ; the posterior half of the mesonotum, 

 the scutellum, postscutellum, the legs except 

 the apical four joints of the tarsi, and the basal two abdominal 



