316 Descriptions and Eecords of Bees. 



about 9 mm. long; stigma and nervures 

 light fen'ugiuous; mesothorax strongly punc- 

 tured ; area of metathorax with strong 

 anastomosing -wrinkles; hind spur with 

 about four blunt laminae. $. (N.China.) H. subopacus, Sm. 

 First abdominal segment shining 6. 



5. Area of metathorax distinctly but rather irre- 



gularly ridged ; hind margins of abdominal 

 segments narrowly rufescent ; stigma and 

 nervures amber-colour. $. (Japan.).... S. scitulus, Sm. 

 Area of metathorax with irregular wrinkles . . 6. 



6. Larger ; about 9 mm. long ; first abdominal 



segment very shiny, with sparse punctures, 

 second and third segments with lateral 

 basal hair-patches ; area of metathorax 

 strongly bounded behind; outer nervures 

 weakened ; hind spur simple. Superficially 

 looks just like H. discus, but easily distin- 

 guished by the dullish closely punctured 



mesothorax. $ . (Japan.) S. pr&xhnatus, Sm. 



Smaller; length about 8 mm., but the differ- 

 ence of size greater than the linear measure- 

 ment would suggest; first abdominal seg- 

 ment very feebly punctured ; hind spur 



minutely nodulose. § . (Japan.) H. familiaris, Sm. 



(preocc.), = rfM/)/er, D. T. 



Dianihidium minutissimum (Bingham). 



Anthidium minutissimum, Bingham. 



Pulvillus distinct ; second r. n. going beyond second s.m. 



DiantMdium lachrymosum (Smith). 

 Anthidium lachrymosum, Smith. 



1 have seen Smith's types, and also one from the Kangra 

 Valley, 4500 feet {Dudgeon). 



Pulvillus well developed ; second r. n. going beyond 

 second s.m. A very compact little species, with white spots 

 at sides of abdomen ; scutellum overlapping base of abdomen ; 

 maxillary palpi apparently 2-joiiited. 



Dianthidiuni truncatum (Smith). 

 Anthidium truncatum, Smith. 



$ . — Obuasi, Ashanti {Graham), in Cambridge Univ. 

 Mus. 



I have also seen Smithes type. Pulvillus present, though 

 small ; second r. n. going conspicuously beyond end of 

 second s.m, A small compact species, the tibi^all yellow on 



