•2Si Mr. T. D. A. Cockerel] — Descriptions and 



broad, not so broad ; area of metathorax smaller, less ruo'ose; 

 punctures of abdomen conspicuously more feeble and less 

 dense; white ]iair-j)atches at sides of abdomen larger. 



^, — Very liivC tlie female, except in the usual sexual 

 characters ; head very broad ; region of mouth, sides of face, 

 and region of anteniise with long l)lackhair, but face otherwise 

 with long white liair, which is dull, not clear white as in ? ; 

 cheeks broad, with black hair ; abdomen less distinctly 

 punctured. 



Hah. Menserah^ N.W. Provinces, India, March 1906 

 (Frank Benton). 



Perhaps a subspecies of A. aWopunctata. 



Andrena suhspinigera, sp. n, 



? . — Length about 11 mm. 



Head, thorax, and legs black ; abdomen with the first three 

 segments clear ferruginous (the first with a broad transverse 

 black band, the third with an interrupted suffused dark band 

 beyond the middle), the others black, the third and fourth 

 with heavy fringes of pure white hair, the second with a 

 thin inconspicuous fringe, the caudal fimbria brownish black. 

 Hair of head and thorax white, with a slight creamy tint on 

 thorax above ; facial £ovea3 rather narrow, seen from above 

 shining white, with the upper end brown; facial quadrangle 

 broader than long ; process of labrum broad and obtuse, with 

 sloping sides ; clypeus dull excejjt at sides, with sparse 

 punctures ; flagellum bright ferruginous beneath except at 

 base; third antennal joint almost as long as next three 

 together; mesothorax and scutellum dull, without well-defined 

 punctures, the long hair not concealing the surface ; area of 

 mttathorax dull, minutely granular, scarcely defined ; tegulae 

 pale yellowish testaceous. Wings strongly reddened, stigma 

 and nervures rufo-fuscous ; b. n. meeting t.-m, ; second s.m. 

 large, receiving first r. n. considerably beyond middle. Scopa 

 of liind tibiae compact, fuscous behind (above), white in 

 front ; basi tarsi broad and flat. Abdomen dull, minutely 

 granular, without any evident punctures. 



Hah. Menserah, N.W. Provinces, India, March 1906 

 {Frank Benton). On some labels the locality is written 

 " xManserah," on others "Menserah." 



Tliis species is very like A. sp'n'gera, Kirby, from Quetta, 

 but differs by the flagellum red beneath, the dusky reddish 

 wings, the dull abdomen, &c. 



