On the Apidse in the British Museum. 399 



But to multiply further instances is to hibour the point 

 unnecessarily. 



Our criticisms may seem unduly fault-finding, but it is 

 in our opinion most unfortunate that such a group as the 

 Primates should have met with treatment so inadequate and 

 sli|)sliod as compared with the admirable works produced on 

 the Chiroptera and on the Mammals of \Yestern Europe by 

 ^Messrs. Kuud Andersen and Miller. 



XLV. — Noiea on the Apida? (^Thpnenoptera) in the Collect ion 

 of the British Museum, with Descriptions of new Species. 

 By Geoffrey Meade- Waldo, M.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



IV. Subfamily Anthofrorinj!. 



In this subfamily only two new species are described, botli 

 from Tropical Africa. A new genus of the subfamily Proso- 

 |)idinse is here described, and proves to be of exceptional 

 interest. 



All types are In the British Museum. 



Eucera, Scop. 



Eucera pollinosa, F. Smith. 



Eucera pollinosa, Smith, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 294 (1^54). $ . 

 Eucera chrygopyga, P^rez, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxxiii. p. 157 



(1879). $J. 

 Eucera f acorn, Mocq. Term^s. Fiizetek, iii. p. 240 (1879). $ c?. 



Both Dalhi Torre and Friese give Smith's species as 

 synonymous witli E. cinerea, Lep. It is certainly not tin's 

 species. There is a topotype of E. pollinosa in the collection 

 of tlie late Edward Saunders bearing the label " E. chryso- 

 pyga, Pdrez, det. Friese," and this identification is doubiless 

 correct. 



Eucera nigrilabris , Lep. (Perez). 



Eucera nigrilabris, Lep. Hist. Nat. Insect. Hymen, ii. p. IIG (1841). ^ . 



Eucera numida, Lep. ibid. p. 117. $. 



Eucera terminalis, ¥. Smith, Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 109 (1879). 



Perez redescribss both Lepelctier's species (Actes See. 



