206 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



form, armature dark brown. Teeth at the base of the stipites wide 

 and well developed, extreme apex of the apical dilatation of each 

 stipes slightly emarginate, sagittte much inflated at the base, 

 testaceous-brown. 



$ . Very like the $ , clypeus duller and more clearly striate. 2nd 

 joint of the flagellum as in the $ about equal in length to the next 



3 taken together, mesonotum dull and finely rugose with a very fine 

 and remote superficial puncturation, abdomen rather narrow, 

 sculptured as in the ^ but the bands of the segments much more 

 conspicuous, the basal segment also having white hairs at the sides, 

 apical fimbria brown. 



Long. 8-9 mm. 



Biskra, ^1,^1, on Moricandia arvcnsis, $ 11, ii, 94 and 

 ? 3, ii, 97. {A. E. E.) 



Andrena niveozonata, n. sp. 



Nigra, nitida, capite thoraceque albido hirsutis, abdominis apicibus 

 segmentorum Itete albo fasciatis fimbria anali aure^. $. Anten- 

 narum articulis tertio, quarto quintoque suba^qualibus, $ articulo 

 tertio, quarto quintoque simul sumptis longiore. 



Black, head and thorax clothed with whitish hairs, abdomen very 

 sliining, segments with very clearly defined white ajjical bands, 

 nervures of the wings pale testaceous, the tarsi testaceous in the ^ . 



^ . Face densely clothed with snowy-white hairs, vertex striate, 

 antennse with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th joints of the flagellum subequal, 

 slightly longer than wide, mesonotum shining, finely and remotely 

 punctured, clothed with nearly white hairs which have however a 

 slight ochreous tinge, propodeal area rather more shining than its 

 surroundings, abdomen shining finely and remotely punctured, the 

 apices of the segments slightly discoloured and bearing a narrow 

 well-defined band of white hairs — legs clothed with white hairs. 



$ . Face clothed with white hairs, clypeus closely and largely 

 punctured, antennas testaceous towards the apex, with the 2nd joint 

 of the flagellum longer than the following 2 together, vertex striated, 

 mesonotum very shining, remotelj'' punctured clothed with almost 

 white hairs having only a very slight ochreous tinge, propodeum 

 dull, its basal area slightly shining and very finely rugulose; 

 abdomen deep black, finely punctured and very shining, the first 



4 segments each bearing a rather broad, well defined band of 

 snow-white hairs, the 5th and sides of the 6th more or less golden, 

 beneath finely punctured the segments with somewhat inconspicuous 

 apical fimbriae, legs clothed with white hairs. 



Long. 6-S mm. 



