244 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell— Deseriptions and 
fourth and fifth each about 175 (the proportions about as in 
A. clarkella); mesothorax dull, very inconspicuously pune- 
tured, with a median groove; scutellum shining, with very 
fine scattered punctures; area of metathorax dull, without 
evident sculpture, poorly defined; tegule dark reddish. 
Wings hyaline, faintly dusky ; stigma amber-colour, ner- 
vures pale fuscous; b.n. going basad of t.-m.; first rn. 
joining second s.m. considerably beyond middle. Legs with 
white hair, tinged with golden on inner side of tarsi ; tibial 
scopa abundant and pure white. Abdomen dullish, without 
evident sculpture (there are excessively minute punctures) ; 
segments with narrow white hair-bands, reduced to lateral 
patches on first, broadly interrupted on second, slightly or not 
on third and fourth ; apical hair white, faintly stained with 
brownish around the plate; second segment depressed 
hardly a third. The facial fovez are broad, white, stained 
with brownish at upper end. 
$ .—Length about 85 mm. 
More slender, with all the tibia and basitarsi black ; face 
with abundant white hair (no black at sides) ; clypeus black, 
shining and distinctly punctured, with a median ridge on 
upper part; mandibles red at end, simple at base ; cheeks 
ordinary, hairy; flagellum obscurely brown beneath ; third 
antennal joint scarcely longer than fourth (proportions about 
asin A.nigriceps) ; abdomen rather more shining. 
Quetta, India ; numerous specimens of each sex taken by 
Col. C. G. Nurse. One male is dated July 1903. 
The female resembles A. wilkella, Kirby, but is less robust, 
with head not so broad, and sides of face with pure white 
hair. In the table in ‘ Apide Europese’ it runs out at 188, 
and the male runs to 160; but the species is very distinct 
from A. soror, L. Duf. A. anonyma, Cam., has a similar 
dull mesothorax, but differs by the broad second s.m. and the 
brilliant white bands of abdomen, those of heteropoda being 
rather inconspicuous, though clear white. A. anonyma has a 
red clypeal mark, wanting in heteropoda. 
Andrena cryptodonta, sp. n. 
9 .—Length about 9 mm. 
Black, including the mandibles, antenne, and legs; head 
and thorax with pure white hair, abundant on face and sides 
of metathorax; inner tooth of mandibles sometimes red ; 
just above base of mandibles, behind, is a small rounded 
dentiform tubercle; process of labrum emarginate ; clypeus 
very hairy, indistinctly punctured, with a broad median 
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