668 Ona new Form of Epinephele from Cyrenaica. 
second. M. apiformis has the mandibles largely red apically; 
basalis has them broadly and suffusedly dark reddish. 
According to Friese, M. apiformis is the female of M. ungu- 
lata, Sm. 
Megachile malayana auriceps, Meade-Waldo. 
Ekeikei, New Guinea, April 1903, 3 9? (Pratt). Cam- 
bridge University Museum. Perhaps a distinct species. 
Xylocopa simillima, Smith. 
Meade- Waldo has appended a note in British Museum :— 
“ Almost certainly not Australian. New Holland is the 
locality given in Children’s collection, whence the specimens 
came.” 
?.—Abdomen dull red, black apically, the segments with 
narrow black bands. Wings very dark, shining purplish. 
Two females from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have exactly 
the aspect of simillima, but Meade-Waldo notes: “ Differ by 
pronounced keel on clypeus, and longer second abcissa of 
radial cell.” 
Andrena ruficornis, Smith. 
Canary Is. 
I found this in the Oxford Museum, and noted the 
following characters :—Expanse about 26 mm., antennze and 
legs red, hind femora dark ; anterior wings fuliginous, base 
and second discoidal cell hyaline, orange-tinted ; second 
submarginal cell very broad, receiving first recurrent nervure 
about middle; mesothorax with strong sparse punctures ; 
area of metathorax very small, with strong ruge ; abdomen 
shining, very finely punctured, without hair-hands or spots. 
LXXXI.—On a new Form of Wpinephele from Cyrenaica. 
By Lord RoruscuiLp, F.R.S. 
Epinephele ida cyrenaice, subsp. n. 
3. Differs from ida ida in having the black patches of 
androconial scales much reduced, consisting of narrow lines 
only, On the underside of the hind wings the irroration is 
obsolete, almost absent, the colour dark brown, NOT grey, and 
the white postmedian band very distinct, almost as in 
pasiphae. 
‘T'ype, Driama, Cyrenaica, April 6th, 1922 (19 ¢ g, Ernst 
Hartert and Carl Hiigert leg.). 
