Descri^ttions and Records of Bees, I'Jl 



XIV. — DcHcriptiuns and Records of Rct'S. — LXXXIN'. 

 My T. U. A. CoCKEHKLL, University of Colorado. 



The Indian bees recorded below were received from Afr. T. 

 V. Rainakrislina Ayyar, Government I'lntomolo^ist of 

 Madras, and were collected by bim, except wiieii the 

 contrary is stated. 



Crocisa smithii, Dalla Torre. 



Coor<r, Sidlwipur, Rockhill, a.lOO ft., April 23-26. 

 This was described from " Boml)ay, Sumatra, Borneo.^' 

 Bombay is herewith desij^uated as the type-locality. 



Crocisa ramose/la, sp. n. 



? . — Length lOo mm. 



The hair-spots white, not at all tinged with blue. Super- 

 ficially appearing identical with C. ramusa, Lep., from 

 France, but (littering thus : flagellum loii:,'er, the middle 

 joints longer than wide ; posterior spots on mesothorax 

 much larger ; scutcllum much more finely punctured, and 

 much more deeply excised posteriorly, its margin W-like ; 

 transverse bands at sides of hrst two abdominal segments 

 ])roader. In the tlagellum this rcsemljles the Arabian 

 C. faliibilis, Kohl, but the scape is not longer than in 

 raniosa, and fallibi/is has the scutcllum as in ramosa. 



Chittoor, April 19-27, 1915. 



Crocisa albolateralis, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length 12 mm. 



Robust, with pure while markings. ^ cry close to 

 C. ramosid/a, but larger, with a tuft of while hair on the 

 scutellum at the emargination (in addition to the white hair 

 projecting from beneath the emargination, which is present 

 in both) ; inner sides of scutellar lobes shallowly but veiy 

 distinctly emarginate about the middle; patch of white 

 hair on pleura consich rahly larger; hind tibiie with more 

 white hair; transverse bands on first abdominal segment 

 narrowing niesad, subacute, thus quite dift'erent from those 

 on second, which are very obtuse, with the ui)per edge eon- 

 cave (in ramosel/a the bands are nearly the same on the two 

 segments) ; second abdominal segment less closi ly punc- 

 tured, and with the ba^al half greenish. 



Kurnool District, Tipjanur, Aug. 10, 1913. 



