Records of Bees. 359 



segments, on fourth extended to form a broad rather nar- 

 rowly interrupted band; apical half of fifth segment covered 

 with white hair ; apex of abdomen truncate. 



r? . — Similar to the female ; antennae 12-jointed, flagellum 

 blackish except at base ; first abdominal segment with a 

 black spot on each side; apical plate of abdomen rounded, 

 densely hairy above ; labrum large, ferruginous, dusky in 

 middle. 



Pusa, Bihar, India, Sept. 1912 (Dutt). 



Sent by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher (No. 5). This greatly 

 extends the known distribution of the genus, the nearest 

 previously known locality for Pasites being Quetta. Owing 

 to its small size, this resembles P. minutus, Mocs., which, 

 however, is even smaller. It also resembles that insect in 

 the hardly bigibbous scutellum, but it differs in the coloration 

 of the abdomen. 



Crocisa minuta, Radoszkowski. 



This little species was described from Mussooree, N.W. 

 Provinces, and was not known to Bingham. A male and 

 female from Chapra (Mackenzie), sent by Mr. T. B. Fletcher 

 (No. 28), agree with the description, but the male (with the 

 abdomen much contracted) is only about 6*5 mm. long. 

 The anterior projection of the band on second abdominal 

 segment is emarginate, and the whole baud on each side of 

 the segment has the outline of a jaw-bone. 



Apis florea, var. andreniformis (Smith). 

 Sandakan, Borneo (Baker). 



Heterapis sandacanensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 3 - 2 mm. 



Slender, shining black ; clypeus with a large suboval 

 reddish-white mark, but no other face-marks; middle of 

 clypeus with dense excessively minute punctures, very much 

 smaller than the facets of the eye (which are large) ; laterally 

 thtse punctures run into longitudinal grooves, but the 

 extreme sides of the clypeus are impunctate ; labrum and 

 mandibles reddish orange, the latter with curled hairs on 

 outer side ; antennee dark brown above, yellowish fulvous 

 below, flagellum short ; upper edge of prothorax ciliated 

 with white hair ; mesothoiax with sparse very minute pili- 

 ferous punctures; scutellum similarly punctured, the disc 

 flat ; area of metathorax not defined, merely microscopically 

 tessellate; tubercles and tegulae testaceous. Wings hyaline; 



