134 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of female pale brown, and on apical segment white stained with 

 reddish (all this hair black in ilerda). Possibly a distinct species. 



Female (type) from Banhar, Behar, December 14th, 1917 

 (H. Inglis) ; male from same locality and collector, March, 1917. 

 Both are Fletcher 49. Additional characters are as follows : 



9 . Mandibles long and falciform, with an inner tooth ; malar 

 space well developed ; process of labrum broad and emarginate ; 

 clypeus convex, polished, with weak sparse punctures, its lower 

 margin broadly reddish ; vertex dull, except a shining line along 

 orbits ; facial foveae narrow, white, with an ochreous tint ; flagellum 

 entirely red; third antennal joint aboiit as long as next two combined; 

 thorax above with short pale fulvous hair, brighter on scutellum ; 

 mesothorax dull, with minute feeble punctures; posteriorly it is more 

 shining ; area of metathorax feebly defined, but subrugose, with 

 ol)lique nearly transverse plicae ; tegulae fuscous ; wings faintly dusky ; 

 second submarginal cell large and broad, receiving first recurrent 

 nervure beyond middle ; tibiae and tarsi entirely clear red, femora 

 darker but partly reddened; hair on inner side of hind basitarsi 

 reddish-golden ; abdomen with first four segments red, the first 

 broadly blackened basally ; segments 2 to 4 with rather narrow white 

 hair-bands, 



(^ . Face, front and cheeks with abundant long white hair ; 

 clypeus black ; flagellum long but stout, black above ; only second 

 abdominal segment distinctly red, and this with dusky median and 

 lateral spots. 



Andrena peridonea, sp. n. 



?. (Type.) Length about 11 mm., anterior wing 9-3 mm.; robust, 

 black, including clypeus and legs, but first abdominal segment 

 (except a dark L-shaped mark on each side) and base, apex and 

 extreme sides of second ferruginous ; third segment with depressed 

 hind margin brown. Head broad ; malar space linear ; process of 

 labrum broad, not emarginate ; clypeus shining, with irregular, large, 

 strong punctures, no smooth middle line ; facial foveae pale fulvous, 

 only moderately broad ; antennae black as far as fourth joint, beyond 

 that castaneous red ; third joint not very long, but about equal to 

 next two combined ; face and cheeks with dull white hair, but it 

 becomes fuscous on front and long and black on vertex ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum shining, with very distinct punctures ; area of meta- 

 thorax triangular, covered with coarse irregular rugae ; hair of thorax 

 dull white at sides, faintly tinged with ochreous above ; wings yellowish 

 hyaline, with clear ferruginous stigma and nervures ; basitarsi 

 rather broad ; abdomen distinctly punctured, finely and closely on 

 third and fourth segments, moi'e sparsely and irregularly on first ; 

 second segment depressed less than half; segments 2 to 4 with 

 white hair-bands ; apex with dense black hair. The second submar- 

 ginal cell receives first recurrent nervure in middle. 



(J . Clypeus black ; flagellum entirely black ; face with pale 

 ochreous-tinted hair ; abdomen red as far as base of fourth segment, 

 but first with a broad black band connected with longitudinal lateral 



