'222 ^Ir. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descrlntions and 



to vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia with 

 fuscous lines at middle and tips. IJind w'lw^ olive-yellow 

 strongly irrorated with large black scales ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots; cilia with fuscous lines at middle and 

 tips ; the underside with traces oP curved subtcrminal line. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Boiyuba (Belion), 1 (^ type. Exp. 

 24 mm. 



Sect. II. — Antennre of male niinutely serrate nnd fasciculate ; fore and 

 hind wings with veins 4, 5 radiating from angles of cell. 



(2.) Paraglossa zonalis, sp. u. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-ochreous, tinged 

 with red and irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with purplish red and irrorated with black ; the costa 

 narrowly black, with a series of ochreous specks on medial 

 area ; ante- and postmedial erect sinuous ochreous lines, the 

 former defined externally with black, the latter internally ; 

 a black discoidal point ; cilia blackish fuscous. Hind wing 

 ochreous, the outer half suffused with purplish pink ; a broad 

 antemedial fuscous-black band, edged by slightly sinuous 

 ochreous lines ; cilia fuscous black. 



9 darker and redder. 



Hab. Sierra Leone (C/t^mez/^s), 1 ^^ tvpe; Nigeria, Warri 

 [Roth), 1 ? . Exp. 20 mm. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVIII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — VIII. 

 Ey T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 



Panurginus Cressoniellus calochortij subsp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6J mm. 



Black ; flagellura black, with only a faint brown tinge 

 beneath on apical half; tcgulpe shining black; stigma and 

 nervures dark fuscous ; marginal cell less obliquely truncate ; 

 basal half of second abdominal segment (seen M'ith compound 

 microscope) lincolate all over and with stronger punctures. 

 On account of the dark flagellum this might be taken for 

 P. atriceps (Cresson), but the microscopical characters are 

 quite different. In atriceps the clypeus is microscopically 

 tessellate, with smaller and much sparser punctures, which 



