462 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



Andrena japonica (Smith). 



Nomia japonica, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 201. $ . 

 Japan. 



A typical Andrena^ described from Hiogo. 



Subfamily Mjelittinm. 



AJeHtta harrietce (Biiigh.), (^ . 



Andrena harrietce^ Bingh. Fauna Brit. Ind., Hymen, i. p. 446 (1897). 



$ . Sikkim. 

 Melitta altissimu, Ckll. Entomologist, xliii. p. 240 (1910). $ . Tibet. 



In a note following his description (/. c.) Coclierell refers 

 to an undescribed Alelitta from the Himulayas shown liim by 

 Colonel Bingham ; it is possible that this specimen may 

 have been since described as Andrena harrietre. 



While working through the residue of the Tibetan 

 material I found eight male specimens of a Melitta captured 

 at the same time and place ((^^yangtse, vi. 1904) as the types 

 of Cockerell's M. altissima, of which species at present only 

 the female is known. 



In addition to secondary sexual characters, the male differs 

 as follows : — 



Clypeus and whole front of head clothed with long, dense, 

 silvery-white pilosity ; thorax (except median segment) with 

 a covering of pale fulvous hair; abdomen as in the ?, but 

 colour of pubescence less intense (? more laded). Rather 

 smalle]-, 12 mm. 



Melitta anthophoroides , sp. n. 



9 . Nigra, hirsuta ; abdominis segmentis 4-6 ; tibiis tarsisque 

 plerumque fulvo-hirtis ; clypeo carina mediana longitudinali ; 

 alis aurantiacis. ' 



Long. 17 mm. 



Black, for the most part clothed with thick black pubes- 

 cence ; tergites 4 (apically), 5 and 6 wholly covered with 

 fulvous pubescence, and sternites 2-5 with apical fringes of 

 a similar pubescence ; all the tarsi and the intermediate and 

 posterior tibise densely covered with fulvous pubescence, 

 Oalcaria and tarsal ungues dull ferruginous. Clypeus coarsely 

 punctured, with a distinct longitudinal carina ; scape and 

 tirst joint of flagellum black, remainder of antennae dull 

 ferruginous ; vertex and thorax wholly covered with close 

 medium-sized punctures, scutellum and postscutellum clothed 

 with long, rather sparse hairs ; enclosed area of median 



