414 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



ochraceous, though black on front; on cheeks below long 

 and white, though broadly black next (o eyes ; on mesothorax 

 anteriorly dark red, and laterally reddish mixed with black ; 

 on hind part of thorax dull white ; a little white sublaterally 

 on first abdominal segment ; third and fourth segments with 

 shaggy apical bands of dull white, that on third interrupted 

 in middle ; ventral surface with more or less long white hair ; 

 anterior femora below with long shining white hair; middle 

 tibise apically in front, and outer surface of their basitarsi, 

 with glittering white hair ; hind tibias and tarsi on outer side 

 with glittering white hair, but hind margin of tibiae with 

 black ; anterior tarsi with yellowish hair on inner side. 

 Hind femora ferruginous (tegument) behind. Clypeus 

 greatly produced, shining and strongly, but not densely 

 punctured, keeled in the middle, the keel ending in an obscure 

 fork some distance before the lower margin ; labrum shining, 

 very coarsely and strongly sculptured; malar space very 

 large ; antennaj entirely black, third joint slender, considerably 

 longer than the next three combined ; disc of mesothorax 

 shining, with scattered punctures, sides densely and minutely 

 punctured; tegulaj piceous. Wings moderately dusky (about 

 as in A. htspanica); b. n. going basad of t.-m.; first r. n. 

 joining second s.m. considerably beyond middle ; legs normal. 

 Bab. Khamba Jong, Sikkim, 15,000-10,000 ft., 15-30. 

 vii. 03 ; Tibet Exped. British Museum. 



Anthophora megarrhina soluta, var. nov. 



? . — Length about 20 mm. 



Light hair of head reduced ; hair of thoracic dorsum prac- 

 tically all black, but a few reddish hairs intermixed in front, 

 and metathorax behind wings with long white hairs; abdo- 

 men without light hair-bands ; hair on outer side of hind legs 

 blackish. A mere variety of the last, with the hair nearly all 

 black except on lower part of face, where it is dull }-ellowish. 



Hab. Gyangtse, 13,000 h., June 1904; Tibet Exped. 

 (H. J. Walton). British Museum. 



The male of this species is represented by two specimens, 

 which come from the type locality, but have the dark hair of 

 the variety. 



cJ . — Similar to the female except for the usual sexual 

 characters; hair black, except some pale overlapping supra- 

 clypeal area, a white patch on each side of clypeus apically, 

 long white hair on lowermost part of cheeks, some white 

 behind wings, and a certain amount of pale hair on legs; 

 mandibles black ; labrum cream-colour except a large brown 



