6 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



India, but I have not seen any from China, the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, nor from 

 Australia ; the known number of species is about one hundred. 



12. CBOCISA HISTRIO, Fabr. 



Nomada kistrio, Fabr., Ent. Syst., ii, 345. 

 Melecta histrio, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., iii. 



Fabr., Syst. Piez., 385. 



Spin., Ins. Ligur., i, 153. 



Crocisa histrio, Latr., Gen. Crust, et las. iv, 172. 

 St. Farg v Hym., ii, 454. 



Eversm., Bull. Mosc., xxv, 104. 



Sab. Taken in the neighbourhood of Yarkand, also at Yangihissar. Found also in 

 Southern France, Russia and Algeria. 



13. CBOCISA INTEUDENS, Fig. 8. 

 Femina. C. nigra, capite, thoraceque, pedibusque albo variegatis, scutello emarginato. 



Black ; the face and cheeks covered with dense snow-white pubescence, on the vertex 

 it is shorter and thinner; the clypeus porrect, the mandibles ferruginous. The anterior 

 margin and sides of the thorax covered with white pubescence ; the mesothorax with three 

 spots anteriorly, the central one oblong, the other two ovate ; also two quadrate spots 

 posteriorly, of white pubescence ; the scutellum deeply emarginate and having a little white 

 pubescence in the emargination ; the tibia3 white outside ; wings hyaline, their apical 

 margins slightly clouded. Abdomen, a broad band of white pubescence at the base and 

 a narrower one on the apical margin of the segments, all slightly interrupted in the 

 middle. Female, length 3J lines. 



Hob. Neighbourhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. 



This genus of bees is not numerous in species ; only about twelve are at present known, 

 but their distribution is extensive ; they have occurred in Europe, North Africa, Natal, South 

 Africa, Ceylon, India, in various islands of the Eastern Archipelago, China, and Australia. 



14. ANTHOPHOEA VIGILANS. 



Mas. A. nigra, pallide villosa, thorace flavescente, abdominis segmentis pallido-mar- 

 ginatis. 



Black; the mandibles, labrum, anterior margin of the clypeus, and a central line 

 uniting with it, white ; the tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous, and two minute black spots 

 at the base of the labrum ; the pubescence on the face yellowish white, the thorax with 

 similar pubescence above ; the posterior tibiae and tarsi with white pubescence. Abdomen ; 

 the apical margins of the segments pale testaceous and having fascia? of white pubescence. 

 The wings clear hyaline. Male, length 5 lines. 



Hub. Dras, Kargil, and Leh, all in Ladak. 



