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are not specially broadened or modified (their spurs are ferru- 

 ginous aud very long), and their inner side, instead of being- 

 bare and smooth, is densely covered with brownish hair. 

 Other salient characters are : — Labrum with a ferruginous 

 spot on each side at base; greater part of mandibles pale 

 yellowish or cream-colour ; tegnlse pale rufo-testaceous ; hair 

 on outer side of middle and hind tibise yellowish white (not 

 bright ferruginous), some black hair near base of tibise; hair 

 on inner side of hind basitarsi dark chocolate ; wings brownish ; 

 nervures dark fuscous (not testaceous) ; hind margins of 

 abdominal segments broadly pallid; fifth segment with a pale 

 reddish fringe. 



Simla, 7000 ft., Oct. 1907 (H. M. L.) t Fletcher, 2 = type. 

 Mussoorie, 7000 ft., Aug. 1906, also Fletcher, 2. 



Dedicated to the memory of Sir Joseph Hooker. 



Anthophora niveocincta, Smith. 



Tarn, Peshawar Dist., N.W. India, Oct. 17-21, 1914 

 (Fletcher, 4). 



Anthophora cyaneotincta, sp. n. 



? .—Length about 11*5 mm. 



Superficially exactly like A, albigena, Lep., except that the 

 second to fourth abdominal bands are very delicately tinted 

 with blue, though not at all shining. It also differs as 

 follows : — Labrum distinctly larger and more quadrate ; 

 black clypeal patches not so large, leaving a dagger-shaped 

 vertical light mark and broad-triangular lateral light areas 

 (the lateral and supraclypeal marks do not differ, and the 

 scape is entirely black) ; fifth abdominal segment entirely 

 black-haired, except for the long white hair at extreme sides; 

 outer side of hind basitarsi with hair all black. The face- 

 markings are creamy white. 



In Friese's table of Palsearctic species it runs to A. albi- 

 gena, but in the labrum approaches A. magnilabris, Fedt. 



Abbottabad, India, June 10, 1916 (Fletcher, 40). 



Xylocopa phanerocephala, sp. n. 



cJ. — Length about 17*5 mm., width of abdomen 7*8 mm. 



Tegument pure black, but face below level of antennae 

 bright lemon-yellow ; labium black, strongly punctured, with 

 a smooth median baud ; scape long, black ; flagellum, except 

 first joint, obscurely brownish beneath ; eyes large, but inner 

 orbits parallel ; cheeks and occiput with pale hair, front with 



