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face pale fulvous, with some fuscous, of region about ocelli 

 mainly fuscous, of cheeks pale but not white ; clypeus lon- 

 gitudinally depressed in middle, coarsely punctured, with 

 a marked tendency toward longitudinal ridges; malar space 

 about half as long as broad; ocelli fulvous; vertex wjth 

 very small irregular punctures ; mesothorax strongly punc- 

 tured j base of metathorax with coarse rugae ; thorax above 

 with dense' bright fulvous hair, sparsely tipped with fuscous ; 

 tubercles with fulvous hair, and a patch just behind tipped 

 with fuscous : pleura with pale ochi eons-tinted hair. Wings 

 reddish hyaline, nervures and the small stigma ferruginous, 

 radial nervine fuscou id submarginal cell extremely 



broad, receiving first recurrent nervure in middle. 1 

 with pale ochreous-tinted hair; Bpurs ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men dullish, without distinct punctures; hind margins of 

 segments broadly testaceous, and covered with appressed 

 ochreous hair, but the first band is mainly on base of second 

 aent; first segment "with light fulvous hair on basal 

 part ; fourth and fifth segments with long fuscous hair before 

 the light bands; venter thinly covered all over with ochreous 

 hair. 



Foochow, Pukien, China. Nov. 1G, 1914 (C. R. Kellogg, 

 243). From Prof. C. F. Baker. 



Something like C. fodiens, Kirby, but of gigantic size. 

 ongolicus, Perez, from Mongolia, has the red hair on 

 thorax above, but it is very much smaller. 



Collates friesei, n. n. 



Colletes mongolicus, Friese, Ann. Mus. Zool. Ac. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 

 xviii. (1918), p. xlix (not of Perez, 1UU3). 



Meguchile (Purconegachile) kobensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 12 mm. 



Black, with white hair, which is short and thin on head 

 and thorax above, so that the general effect is grey. Abdo- ' 

 men with entire white hair-bands on segments 2 to 5 ; 

 ventral scopa white (with a faint creamy tint, contrasting 

 with the pure white of the dorsal bands), black on last seg- 

 ment ; last dorsal segment straight in profile, with scanty 

 short dark hair. Mandibles quadridentate, the basal half 

 covered with white hair; clypeus convex, densely punctured, 

 with a smooth shining median line, lower margin subangular 

 on each side; supraclypeal area densely punctured, with a 

 shining area in middle ; fiagelluni obscure fuscous beneath, 



