462 Ml . G. Meade-Waldo on 



Andrena japonica (Saiitli). 



yomin japonica, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1873, p. 201. §. 

 Japau. 



A typical Andrena^ described £iom Hiogo. 



Subfamily Melittinje. 

 AJelitta )iarrieta- (Biiigh.), ^ . 



Andrena harrieta, Bingh. Fauna Brit. Ind., Hymen, i. p. 446 (1897). 



$. Sikkim. 

 Melitta altissima, Ckll. Entomologist, xliii. p. 240 (1910). $ . Tibet. 



In a note following liis description (/. c.) Cockerell refers 

 to an undescribed MelUta from the Himalaj-as shown him by 

 Colonel Bingham ; it is possible that this specimen may 

 have been since described as Andrena harrieUe. 



While working through the residue of the Tibetan 

 material I found eight male specimens of a Melilla captured 

 at the same time and jjlace ((jryangtse, vi. 1904) as the types 

 of Cockerell's ^J. altissima, of which species at present only 

 the female is known. 



In addition to secondary sexual characters, the male differs 

 as follows : — 



Clypeus and whole front of head clothed with long^ dense, 

 silvery-white pilosity ; thorax (except median segment) with 

 a covering of pale fulvous hair; abdomen as in the ?, but 

 colour of pubescence less intense (? more faded). Rather 

 smaller, 12 mm. 



Melitta anthophoroides, sp. n. 



9 . Nigra, hirsuta ; abdominis segmentis 4-6 ; tibiis tarsisque 

 plerumque fulvo-hirtis ; clypeo carina mediana longitudinali ; 

 alis aurantiacis. 



Long. 17 ram. 



Black, for the most part clothed with thick black pubes- 

 cence ; tergites 4 (apically), 5 and 6 wliolly coveied with 

 fulvous pubescence, and sternites 2-5 with apical fringes of 

 a similar pubescence; all the tarsi and the intermediate and 

 posterior tibise densely covered with fulvous pubescence, 

 (jalcaria and tarsal ungues dull ferruginous. Clypeus coarsely 

 punctured, with a distinct longitudinal carina ; scape and 

 tirst joint of flagellum black, remainder of antenna dull 

 ferruginous ; vertex and thorax wholly covered with close 

 medium-sized punctures, scutellum and postscutellum clothed 

 with lo))g, rather sparse hairs ; enclosed area of mediaa 



