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antennae and eyes, dark seal brown, not separated from eye, ending 

 a little above level of top of clypeus; antennae black (flagellum 

 brownish-black), the third joint almost as long as the next three 

 combined; mesothorax shining, the disk with distinct but well sepa- 

 rated punctures; scutellum shining; base of metathorax dull and 

 granular, without rugae, the area scarcely defined; tegulae dark 

 ruf otestaceous ; wings moderately dusky; stigma and nervures fer- 

 ruginous, rather dark; first r. n. reaching second s. m. far beyond 

 middle; legs black, the tarsi dark ferruginous; spurs ferruginous; 

 hair of legs dull white on femora, pale orange on tarsi; mainly 

 reddish on tibiae; the orange scopa of hind tibia has collected a 

 quantity of red pollen ; abdomen shining, with only feeble pilif erous 

 punctures, hind margins of the segments narrowly testaceous; first 

 segment with much long pale hair; segments one to four with con- 

 spicuous white apical hair-bands, that on first thin in the middle; 

 caudal fimbria purplish-sooty, as also the thick apical fringe of fifth 

 segment. 



Habitat— Rupshu, Ladak, 16,000 feet, July 21 and 22, 1897 (W. L. 

 Abbott). 



In Schmiedeknecht's table this runs to 153, and runs out because 

 of the yellow or orange scopa, combined with the absence of distinct 

 punctures on the abdomen. The superficial appearance is that of a 

 rather pale A.fulvicrus Kirby, but the latter has a strongly punctured 

 abdomen. This seems to have no special affinity with any of the 

 numerous species described from northern India and adjacent 

 regions. It may possibly be identical with one of the 52 described 

 by Morawitz from Turkestan, but I think not, as the bee-fauna of the 

 higher altitudes in the Himalayas seems to be wholly distinct (as to 

 species) from that of the lower levels, as might be expected. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13531, U.S.N.M. 



ANDRENA PILIPES Fabricius. 



Pekin, China, April 21-30, 1901 (M. L. Robb). These Chinese 

 specimens run exactly to pilipes in Schmiedeknecht's table, and upon 

 comparison with a specimen of A. pilipes from Sicily, I fail to find any 

 tangible difference. One specimen (female) is stylopized. 



ANDRENA THORACICA Fabricius. 



Pekin, China, April 20, 1901 (M. L. Robb). Three females in rather 

 poor condition. These run exactly to thoracica in Schmeideknecht's 

 table, and agree perfectly with his description. I possess only the 

 male of European thoracica, but it agrees in general with these females, 

 except for the usual sexual differences; especially characteristic are 

 the pallid wings with ferruginous nervures, the second s. m. large. 

 In both sexes the b. n. falls a little short of the t. m. 



