the Apidre in fhe British Museum. 463 



segment impunctate, truncation of median segment very 

 sparsely punctured, almost bare of pubescence. Abdomen 

 very finely punctured all over except the apical margins of 

 the tergites, which "are shining and impunctate; terminal 

 steriiite pointed, shining, impunctate, longitudinally sub- 

 carinate. Tegulse shining, piceous. Wings golden hyaline, 

 the nervures pale ; stigma o£ medium size ; third cubital cell 

 at least three times as long as second; first r. n. joining- 

 second cubital cell about the middle, second r. n. joining third 

 cubital cell at end of second third; basal nervure feebly 

 arched. 



Length 17 mm. 



1 ?. 



SiKKiM: Lebong, 5000 £r., ix. 1908 {H. M. Lefroy), ex 

 Coll. Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bengal. 



The superficial resemblance between this species and 

 Anthophora {Habropoda) tainaiiicola, Strand, is very striking ; 

 the type-locality of" A. tainaiiicola is Formosa, but there are 

 specimens from Assam in the B.itish Museum which certainly 

 appear identical. Like the other Himalayan species of 

 Metitta referred to above, the pubescence is much denser 

 tlian in the well-known species from the Western Palsearctic 

 region, e. g. M . hcemorrhoidalis, leporina, &c. 



Melitta arrogans (Smith). 

 Andrena arrogans, Smith, Descr. New Spec. Hyineu. p. 56 (1879). $ . 



This species comes very near M. tarnerl (lirauns), but the 

 condition of Smith's type is too poor to say whether they are 

 identical. There is a co-type of M. turneri in the British 

 Museum. 



Colletes neglecta (Smith). 



Andrena neglecta, Smith (nee Dours.), Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 57 



(1879). $. 

 Andrena negligenda, D. T., nam. no v. (1896). 



The single specimen in poor condition is evidently a 

 Colletes. It seems doubtful whether typical Andrena occurs 

 in the Ethiopian Region. 



Subfamily Panurgin^.e. 



Rhopiiitulus, Ducke. 

 Rhophitulus, Ducke, Zeitschi'. Hym. Dipt. vii. p. 366 (1907). 



Ducke (Zool. Jahrb. p. <S<s, 11)12) suggests that this genus 



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