Records of Bees. 99 



Taliparamba, Malabar District, Sept. 30-Oct. 4 (Rama- 

 krishna Ayyar) . 



Crocisa histrio (Fabricius) . 

 Beeravalli-Bellary District (C. N.). India. 



Crocisa macraspis, sp. n. 



£ . — Length about 10 mm. 



Robust, black, with clear white markings (hair-patches) ; 

 anterior wings fuliginous ; scutellum unusually large, the 

 apical incision broad and open, but with straight sides ; no 

 'white hair on scutellum, but a large white tuft beneath the 

 incision ; thoracic markings with the usual pattern, but 

 median line reduced to a rather small elongate mark, stripe 

 above teguhe reduced to anterior portion, median and 

 posterior mesothoracic spots large and rounded ; pleura with 

 a very broad median transverse band, narrowly connected 

 anteriorly with a large patch beneath wings, aud an isolated 

 round spot ventrally ; anterior and middle tibiae covered 

 with white hair on outer side, hind tibiae with about the 

 basal half white, the white divided from the black diagonally ; 

 hind basitarsi with a small tuft of white near base ; head 

 with white hair ; white on abdomen reduced to lateral 

 patches ; on first segment shaped much like a bird's head 

 and neck (reversed), the inner projection broad and obtuse, 

 but narrowing toward end; marks on the other segments 

 broader than long. The hind femora have a rounded keel 

 beneath, but no tooth. . 



Saidapet farm, Sept. 6, 1907, on flower (T. V. R.). The 

 locality is in Madras. 



Differs from C. ramosa by the much larger scutellum, 

 abdominal markings, &e.; the scutellum is also quite different 

 from that of C. ramosella. Compared with C. reduclula,his 

 larger and broader, with more white hair on tibiae. 



Crocisa chionotricha, sp. u. 

 ? . — Length about 9 mm. 



Looks like C. ramosella, Ckll., but is smaller, with the 

 markings pure white (instead of creamy white), scutellum 

 with white hair above the notch, and no long stripe of white 

 hair above the tegulae. Anterior wings fuliginous ; head 

 with white hair ; markings of thorax as usual, anterior 

 median band reaching level of anterior end of middle pair of 

 spots, s'ripe above tegu ae reduced to a large cuneiform mark 

 anteriorly ; posterior mesothoracic spots oblique ; pleura 

 marked nearly as in C. macraspis; scutellum deeply incised, 

 W-like, the points acute ; middle tibias with rather more, 

 and hind tibire with rather less, than basal half covered with 



