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with two small round black spots, the mandibles black at end, 
with a band of red before the black; scape black, flagellum 
rather long, obscurely reddish beneath ; third antennal joint 
very short, not much longer than fourth. Eyes very pale 
ochreous; hair of face, cheeks, and pleura abundant, pure 
white, of head and thorax above tinged with tawny (especially 
just behind wings), but not at all mixed with black ; tegule 
pale testaceous. Wings clear hyaline, nervures reddish. 
Legs black ; hind femora not inerassate ; hair of legs white ; 
‘hind basitarsi with black (slightly brownish) hair on inner 
side. Abdomen with very broad dense hair-bands, tinged 
with tawny; apex bidentate; venter with white hair right 
across. 
Quetta, India (Nurse). 
Closely related to A. delicata, Ckll., to which it runs in the 
table in ‘ Entomologist, 1911, p. 237. It differs by the 
absence of dark hairs on thorax above, the hair-band on 
second abdominal segment much broader and strongly tinged 
with fulvous (pure white in delicata), the spots on labrum, 
the colour of the eyes, the white (instead of black) hair on 
underside of hind femora, &e. It is also evidently related to 
A. nigricornis, Morawitz, but differs by the absence of dark 
hairs on thorax above, the paler tegule, and the moderate 
and not acute bidentation of apex of abdomen. There is a 
strong superficial resemblance to A. velocissima, Fedt., also 
found by Col. Nurse at Quetta. 
Melissodes thelypodii, Cockerell. 
9.—Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sept. 7, at flowers of 
Ipomea hirsutula, Jacq. (Cockerell). 
Eucera microsoma, n. v. 
Eucera pumila, Pérez, 1910; near Homs, Syria (not 
E. pumila, Klug, 1845). 
Tetraloniella graja nurset, subsp. n. 
9 (type).—Dull ferruginous, with the hind margins of the 
abdominal segments brighter and paler red ; pubescence very 
pale, mainly white, tinged with ochreous on mesothorax and 
scutellum, where it is short and very dense; ventral segments 
of abdomen with reddish-golden hair; eyes pale greenish ; 
clypeus entirely cream-colour ; antenne entirely bright ferru- 
ginous; scopa of hind legs creamy white. . 
gd .—Antennze very long, entirely red; abdomen with 
dense creamy-white tomentum. 
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