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men one specimen was taken, which was deficient in size and 

 paler than normal. 



Celastrina argiolus, L. — Disenaaen, not common. 



Callophrys rnhi, L. — Common at Disenaaen and also at Matt- 

 mar, but in both cases worn. 



Hesperia centaurae, Pibr.— Abisko, just emerging June 21st. 



H. malv(e, L. — Disenaaen, not uncommon. 



AiKjiades comma var. catena, Stgr. — Abisko, July 11th. 



As already stated the season was a very dry one. I had only 

 three wet days while on suitable collecting ground. One occurred 

 at Mattmar and two while I was at Abisko. 



In conclusion I have to thank Mr. H. Kowland-Brown and 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon for kindly giving me information relative to 

 my journey, and I felt honoured by the interest taken in my 

 work by the Swedish Academy of Science, from' which I received 

 a communication when I arrived at Abisko. 



28, Pitt Street, Edinburgh. 



SOME INDIAN BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



A small series of Indian Andrena received from Mr. T. 

 Bainbrigge Fletcher has given me a good deal of trouble, and I 

 can only hope that I have avoided errors in my account of them. 

 Bingham's key (as Nurse remarked in 1903) is of little use, and 

 the descriptions by Cameron and others are not very satisfactory. 

 I have made repeated efforts to obtain authentic specimens of the 

 species of Nurse and Cameron, but entirely without result. I 

 have Bingham's A. harrietce, but it is a Melitta. I have seen 

 A. balacha, Nurse, in the U.S. National Museum. There is 

 undoubtedly a large Andrena fauna in Northern India, of which 

 the known species constitute only a small part. 



Andrena ilerda, Cameron. 



? . Lyallpur, Punjab, July 24th, 1917 {G. R. Dutt), 

 Fletcher 23. I am satisfied that this is ilerda, although the 

 hair of thorax above is tinged with fulvous, the stigma is rufous 

 margined with fuscous, and the clypeus is quite sparsely 

 punctured in the middle. Cameron, in his short diagnosis, says 

 the stigma is dark rufous ; in his description below he says it is 

 fuscous. A male, also marked 23, bears the label : "Sugar cane, 

 Lyp., Punjab, 16, 12, xi {M. M. L.)." The female very closely 

 resembles A. hipartita, Brulle {urometcena, Costa). 



Andrena ilerda inglisi, subsp. n. 



9 . Length about 10-5 mm., J about 11 mm., thus a little smaller 

 than typical ilerda ; fringe of long hair on fifth abdominal segment 



