Records of Bees. 411 



greyish-white hair, the surface otherwise witii appressed 

 greyish-white hair, with long suberect black hairs inter- 

 mixed. 



Bab. Lhasa, Tibet, " viii. ix. 01, Tibet Exped." (//. J. 

 Walton). In British Museum. 



These bees are of unusual interest on account of the locality. 

 They prove to be quite different from all the Himalayan 

 species recorded by Bingham and Nurse, and also from the 

 species of the Filchner expedition reported on by Friese. 

 On the other hand, they are so close to the European 

 A. vulpina that they seem to be only a pale desert race, 

 though it is possible that the male would show more striking 

 differences. They do not accord with any of the members of 

 the A. vulpina group described from Turkestan : A. plebeja, 

 Morawitz, differs by the dull labrum and testaceous tegula?; 

 while A. flavescens, Fedts., and A. murina, Fedts., both 

 have " tegulis calcaribusque testaceis." 



Antkophora persicorum, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 14 mm. 



Agrees with A. quadrifasciata, Villers, in nearly all 

 respects, but differs thus : clypeus creamy white, with only 

 an oblique quadrate black mark on each side above; antennso 

 dark reddish, the flagellum ferruginous beneath ; hair of head 

 above dull white instead of fulvous, and that of thorax doubo- 

 less also pale, but worn off on the type except at sides; 

 hair-bands of abdomen rather broader and clear snow-white; 

 wings distinctly darker. The hind legs are quite as in 

 A. quadrifasciata, the hind tibia white-haired on the outside, 

 the hind basitarsus entirely black-haired. The legs are more 

 or less reddened, and the femora have sooty hair beneath. 

 Teguhe pale testaceous; spurs dark reddish. 



The A. quadrifasciata compared is from Gran. The Persian 

 insect is perhaps only a local subspecies ; it looks very 

 distinct, but has no important characters. It exactly agree* 

 with the description of A.furmosa except as to the hair of 

 the legs. I have been ihrough all the descriptions of Asiatic 

 species allied to quadrifasciata and find nothing identical. 



Nab. S.W. Persia (Escalera). In British Museum. The 

 specimen is also labelled " K. iSefid.^ 



Antltophora zonata (L.). 



This beautiful species has been reported from many of the 

 Malay islands, including Borneo, Java, Celebes, New Guinea, 



J 2b* 



