Records of Bees. 481 



the following characters can be made out : mandibles largely 

 yellow ; face densely covered with white hair ; scape swollen, 

 yellow in front ; mesothorax all black ; tubercles yellow ; 

 scutellum with yellowish or reddish spots ; nietathorax and 

 pleura all black ; venation and colour of stigma as in pyri- 

 fera ; first abdominal segment with basal half black, apical 

 half red, and two large yellow spots, not far apart, on the 

 red; second segment with pyriform marks larger, meeting 

 in the middle line; segments 3 to 6 with entire yellow 

 bands; apical plate feebly notched; venter with yellow 

 bauds. 



Andrena melanospila, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 10 mm. 



Black, the head and thorax with copious moderately long 

 hair, dull white on face, cheeks, and pleura, pale fulvous on 

 occiput and dorsum of thorax (brightest on scutellum), but 

 black on mesothorax posteriorly, and on front and vertex ; 

 malar space linear ; process of labrum rather narrow, 

 obtuse ; clypeus brightly polished, with sparse small punc- 

 tures ; facial foveas broad, dark brown, not extending below 

 level of antennas; antennas dark; third joint much longer 

 than fourth, but not quite as long as fourth and fifth ; 

 mesothorax dull and granular, shining posteriorly ; scutellum 

 shining, without evident punctures ; area of metathorax 

 dull and finely granular ; tegulas piceous. Wings dusky, 

 the large stigma and nervures dull reddish; b. n. meeting 

 t.-m. ; second s.m. receiving first r. n. distinctly beyond 

 middle ; scopa of hind tibias white in front and black behind. 

 Abdomen dull, not punctured ; second segment depressed 

 scarcely a fourth ; hind margins of segments 2 to 4 with 

 narrow pure white hair-bands; caudal fimbria purplish 

 black. 



Soochow, China (N. Gist Gee). U.S. Nat. Museum. 



In the Palaearctic fauna this falls near to A. dentiadata 

 (Kirby), from which it is easily separated by the narrow 

 white abdominal bands and. the black and white hair of hind 

 tibiae. It is not like any of the species described by Strand 

 from Tsingtau. The abdominal bands are as in A. ivilkeda, 

 but that has an entirely different clypeus. 



Andrena delicatitla, sp. n. 



<$ . — Length 8 mm. 



Black, superficially exactly like A. albicrus, but running 

 in tables of Palsearctic species to A. lapponica, which is a 

 Atm. & Mag. N. Mist. Ser. 9. Vol. ii. 35 



