290 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



l)I<ick on anterior part of sciitellum, and white on lower part 

 o£ pleura; mesothnrax dull, slightly shining on disc ; teguiae 

 piceous. Wings hyaline, very faintly brownish apically. 

 Legs with long- white hair; middle tarsi not modified, nor 

 with any black fringe on last joint ; hind basitarsi not 

 toothed. Abdomen shining, with piliferous punctures, the 

 surface covered with long hair, pale greyish-yellow on first 

 two segments, black on the others, but hind margins of 

 seguionts 2 to 4 with loose bands o£ white hair ; venter with 

 long white hair. 



'i . — Lengtii about 16 mm. 



Tongue very long ; no pale face-marks, but a red tubercle 

 on each side of base of labrum, and malar si)ace red ; hair of 

 front pale ; disc of mesothorax and anterior part of scutellum 

 with some dark hair, not conspicuous ; tegulse rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; patches of fulvous hair at apices of anterior and 

 middle tibise and on hind knees; hair on inner side of iiind 

 tibiae (except base) black, on inner side of hind tarsi largely 

 red, in some lights appearing rich fox-red with black margin ; 

 abdomen with broad pale hair-bands on segments 2 to 4 ; 

 apex with black hair ; apical plate long and narrow ; venter 

 with white fringe on segments 2 to 4, but dense black hair 

 on apex of 5. 



Ilih. Ivotal Malul, S. Persia, Feb. 1906 {Franh Benton), 



2 c?,l ?. , 



Kesembles A. cinerea (Friese), from Sarepta, but is con- 

 siderably larger. Tliere is a general resemblance to A. cri- 

 nipes, Sui., but the middle tarsi are not modified as in that 

 si)ecies, and crlnipes has a linear malar space. By the white 

 face-marks and prominent clypeus the male resembles 

 A. dives, Dours, of which I have a specimen marked 

 "cotype" from Gribodo, but the legs are entirely different. 

 Friese makes dives a synonym of A. dufourii, Lep., but it is 

 possibly separable, the male (at least) having no metallic 

 colour on abdomen, the middle tarsal joints of middle leg 

 longer and slenderer than in Friese's figure, and the brush 

 on last joint wider. They agree, however, in the remarkable 

 liind basitarsi. 



Osmia [Ceratosmia) halucha. Nurse. 



Quetta, India, March 1906 {Benton). 



The male has the middle femora strongly produced and 

 annulate beneath, but the hind basitarsi are not dentate. 



