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bands ; dorsal punctures sparser ; last dorsal segment 

 narrower, with the keel shorter and less distinct ; last ventral 

 segment not notched at the sides ; penultimate ventral segment 

 with rather sparse, rather elongated punctures all over, or 

 they may be dense posteriorly. 



Hub. Queensland {E. Saunders), with nos. 93-49 and 320. 

 Another bears no locality-label, but simply the number 

 1904-27'. 



Megachile cleomis, var. lippicje, Ckll. 



JNIr. Wilmon Newell kindly sends me a female collected 

 by ]\Ir. F. Beltran at Monterey, Mexico, where the species 

 is very destructive to rose-bushes. This extends the known 

 range about 600 miles S.E. The specimen is peculiar iu 

 having the punctures of the middle of the mesothorav larger 

 and less dense than normal, and the ventral scopa lacks the 

 yellowish tinge. Possibly a series would piove that the 

 Monterey insect should be subspecifically separated. 



Bumbus gilyitensis, sp. n. 



?. — Length about 23 mm.; wing about 16; abdomen 

 nearly parallel-sided, about 9 mm. (or a little over) wide and 

 almost 15 long. 



Black, with black, dull white, and bright fulvo-ferruginous 

 hair; hair of head all black, except that on occiput it has a 

 purplish-brown tint ; hair of legs black, the apices of the tarsal 

 joints with short deep red spine-like bristles, hair on inner side 

 of basal joint of hind tarsi a very dark reddish ; thorax in front 

 with abundant dull white hair, a very broad band of purplish- 

 black hair between the wings ; scutellum with dull white 

 hair mixed with black; base of abdomen with dull white 

 hair, covering first segment and basal half of second, except 

 at sides, the rest, including apex, black, except the fourth 

 and fifth segments, which are covered with long fulvo- 

 fcrruginous hair, the base of the fourth being overlapped by 

 the black of the third; ventral segments with very tliiu 

 iringes of long hair, black on the first three segments, fulvo- 

 fcrrugmous on the fourth and fifth. Wings strongly clouded, 

 with a warm red tint. Head not elongated; malar space 

 broader than long. jNIiddle of mesothorax with a large nude 

 shining impunctate area, the region surrounding it strongly 

 and closely punctured. 



Hub. Gilgit, Kashmir; collector unknown to me. (British 

 INluseum Collection.) 



