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shining ridge ; facial foveee broad, white, brownish at upper 
end ; third antennal joint about 300 microns long, fourth and 
fifth each about 160; mesothorax and scutellum shining, with 
fine easily visible punctures ; area of metathorax granular 
and poorly defined, with a median tuft of white hair over- 
lapping it; tegulee dark reddish. Wings clear, apical margin 
faintly brownish; stigma dull ferruginous bordered with 
fuscous, nervures fuscous ; b. n. falling short of t.-m. ; second 
s.m. rather narrow, receiving first r.n. about middle. Hair 
of legs white ; tibial scopa rather short and stiff, white, with 
a reddish stain below the knee-plate; spurs pale red. Abdo- 
men shining, with distinct but minute punctures; segments 
with rather broad pure white hair-bands, on first segment 
reduced to a patch on each side, on second broadly inter- 
rupted, on third and fourth entire ; hair at apex white, faintly 
stained with brown; second segment depressed about two- 
fifths, 
The type is from Peshin, India, April 1903 (Nurse); in 
U.S. National Museum. I have another from Quetta, April 
1903 (Nurse). 
A neat little species, which runs in ‘ Apidee Europese’ to 
197, and runs out. It also runs out in my MS. tables of 
Indian species. The hind tibiz are shaped about as in 
A. varians, but the insect resembles A. dorsata in the abun- 
dant hair of posterior part of thorax. 
Morawitz described fifty-two species of Andrena from 
Turkestan. Of these I found only tenuis and turkestanica in 
the British Museum. The latter appears to be widespread, as 
there is a specimen at Oxford from Egypt. <A. tenuis has 
been found at Peshin and A. cussariensis at Kohat ; but, with 
these exceptions, we have not been able to find the Mora- 
witzian species in the Indian region. 
In the Caucasus and Transcaucasus is another long series 
of Andrena with little in common with the Turkestan or 
Indian faunee. It thus appears that, except for a few wide- 
ranging species, Andrena in Asia shows very strong local 
endemism. 
Andrena flavipes, Panzer (fulvicrus, Kirby). 
Many specimens of both sexes collected by Col. Nurse in 
Kashmir, 6000-7000 ft., April and May 1901. There is also 
a ? from Simla, Sept. 1898. Perkins found the species 
double-brooded in England. Morawitz records this species 
from Turkestan, and I am unable to separate the Indian 
form. ‘The Indian female, compared with flavipes from Gray, 
