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the outer edge; pygidium sharply suleate ; elytra obliquely 
truncate and hollowed towards the sutural angle, the apices 
a little smoother. 
Length 3-3} mm. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Nata, Frere and Estcourt (Dr. Marshall: x. 1892, 
ix. 1896, 1. 1897). 
Three ¢ ¢, three 9 9. Not unlike Z. apricus, Gorh., 
but very differently coloured, the head smaller ; the elytra 
without apical excavation in g, the pygidium broad, black, 
and sulcate in the same sex. 
Alphabetical numbered list of species of Ebeeus enumerated in 
this paper ; those marked with an asterisk are treated as new. 
*alboguttatus, 7. *pectinimanus, 39. 
*albopartitus, 18. *quadrinotatus, 26. 
arhcenulus, 29, *quadrisignatus, 25. 
apricus, 34, ramicornis, 82. 
argus, 17. ridens, 12. 
bicaudatus, 10. *rubricatus, 3. 
bonnefoii, 24. rufithorax, 22. 
*cavicauda, 31. *sericatus, 6. 
*confluens, 15. simoni, 19, 
*conigerus, 1. *sinuatipes, 21. 
consobrinus, 16. *gudanicus, 14. 
*erassicauda, 9. *tetrazona, 30. 
*dichrous, 33. *zonarius, 27. 
dunbrodensis, 5. _ x 
*ephippiatus, 23. SYNONYMS, VARIETIES, ETC. 
exquisitus, 13. africanus, 32. 
inermipennis, 20. bizonatus, 10. 
*maculipes, 11. *havilandi, 15. 
martini, 4. natalensis, 4, 32. 
*nairobianus, 2. rhodesiana, 22. 
*nigrofemoratus, 36, rufo-apicalis, 34. 
*nyasanus, 28. sublimbatus, 34. 
ornatipennis, 8. transvaalensis, 54. 
: XXVI.—Deseriptions and Records of Bees—XCII. 
By T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado. 
Andrena precocella, Cockerell, 1917. 
Col. C. G. Nurse took this species in abundance at Quetta, 
March 1903. The female is new, and is so unlike the male 
that it requires a separate description. 
2 —Length about 11 mm. 
Black, with the second and third abdominal segments, and 
broad apex of first, bright ferruginous ; the second segment 
