666 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Descriptions and 
having the mandibles of the male without a light spot, but 
it is otherwise different. British males, and also the African 
nigrofulva, have the light spot. 
Mesotrichia rufosellata, sp. n. 
@ .—Length about 15 mm., anterior wing 12°5 mm. 
Black, with the posterior part of mesothorax (less than 
half) and upper surface of scutellum densely covered with 
ferruginous hair, the red on mesothorax interrupted in 
middle ; first abdominal segment dorsally with yellow hair, 
thin in middle; supraclypeal area and sides of face with 
white hair, with some black intermixed, and some light hairs 
on clypeus; pubescence otherwise black; maxillary palpi 
with first joint short, second and third very long, fourth 
much shorter than third, last two very small and slender, the 
fifth shortest ; clypeus flattened, somewhat concave, closely 
punctured, with a narrow impunctate median line; a raised 
keel-like reversed U has its base above the supracly peal 
area, and its diverging sides part way down the lateral 
margins of clypeus; scape long and curved; flagellum 
beyond the base red beneath; ocelli small; vertex well 
punctured ; mesothorax bare, shining and impunctate in 
middle; tegula dark brown. Wings dark fuliginous 
throughout, strongly purple; middle and hind tibiae: short, 
and their basitarsi long; claws and tips of tarsi red ; abdo- 
men well punctured. ‘The name is derived from the red 
saddle-like mark on the thorax. 
Maritzburg, Natal, Feb. 1919 (BE. Warren). “ Boring in 
sunflower.’ 
A species of the Caffra group, easily known by its Seni 
size and the area of red hair on thorax. It is not a colour- 
variety of divisa, Klug, being smaller and more slender, with 
the facial elevation quite different. The specimen was sent 
from the Natal Museum to Mr. Cedric Dover in Calcutta, 
who forwarded it to me. It will be returned to the Natal 
Museum, 
Andrena hirticornis, Pérez. 
A male in the collection of the Rev. F. D. Morice has four 
submarginal cells ou one side, au abnormality I have never 
observed before. The insect has the general style and size 
of A. suerinensis, Friese ; stigma ferruginous ; second sub- 
marginal cell broad, receiving first recurrent nervure in 
middle’s head very broad, face with pale ferruginous hair ; 
thorax with red hair. 
