Records of Bees. 363 
Colletes honoratus, sp. n. 
3 .—Length about 10 mm., anterior wing about 7-3 mm. 
Black, including legs, antenne, and mandibles, the last 
“obscurely reddish apically ; hair of face and front. long and 
pale fulvous, of cheeks dull white, of thoracic dorsum bright 
fox-red, of other parts of thorax yellowish white ; Allama 
with five narrow but very distinct sordid white hair-bands ; 
lobes of tongue unusually small; malar space nearly as long 
as broad; third antennal joint much shorter than fourth ; 
base of metathorax with a broad transverse channel, above 
which is a narrow shining band, crossed by rather irregular 
and weak ridges ; mesothorax shining, but with numerous 
strong punctures ; ; tegulee dark rufo- een: Wings hyaline, 
stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous, second s.m. very broad. 
Abdomen shining, with fine distinct punctures, a little denser 
ou second segment than on first ; apex broadly rounded. 
Snula, India, Sept. 1898 (Nurse). 
On account of the red hair on thorax, it resembles C. sanctus, 
Ckll., but it differs in the abdominal bands, malar space, seh 
It is actually very close to C. duviesianus, Sm., which 
extends from Europe to Central Asia. From daviesianus it 
differs by being larger, with more distinctly and closely 
punctured abdomen (e especially second segment), the broader 
second s.m., the larger malar space, and the much longer 
fourth antennal joint. OC. tuberculatus, Mor., is another ally 
of daviesianus, from Turkestan; but it is considerably 
smaller, and has tubercles on the fifth and sixth ventral 
segments of abdomen. 
Colletes idoneus, sp. n. 
3 .—Length about 10 mm., anterior wing 6°8 mm. 
Black, including legs, antennz (the flagellum obscurely 
reddish beneath), and mandibles (except apical part dark 
reddish) ; hair of head and thorax dense and white, distinetly 
yellowish on face and thoracic dorsum ; hair of thorax above 
short ; malar space much broader than long ; lobes of tongue 
large ; fourth antennal joint little longer than third ; meso- 
forex densely and strongly punctured ; metathorax with 
abundant long hair; tegule small, rufo-testaceous. Wings 
clear, stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous. Abdomen 
dullish, finely and closely punctured, on second segment 
appearing minutely rugose and dull, on third and fourth 
somewhat shining; six broad pemtire. dense, white hair-bands, 
but black hairs on the dark portions of the segments 5 venter 
shining, with dense, narrow, pure white hair-bands, the fifth 
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