Records of Bees. 227 



Eicaspis {Parevaspis) carhonaria (Smith). 

 Salsette, N.W. India {E. Comber). British Museum, 



Euaspis (Parevaspis) basalts (Hits.). 



Both sexes from Takao, Formosa, Aug. 20, 1907 (Saute)'). 

 Berliu Museum. These agree with the southern material of 

 E. basalts, rather than with the Japanese, but I have not 

 been able to recognize more than one species (cf. Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., Sept. 190^, p. 207). 



Systropha tropicalis, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 9 mm. 



Black, closely resembling S. curvicornis (Scopoli), with 

 the same peculiar antennae, except that the apical joints are 

 considerably shorter, but differing conspicuously as follows : 

 Wings darker and browner ; stigma and nervures very dark 

 brown; first s.m. much shorter ; sides of vertex very smooth 

 and sliiniug ; area of metathorax a broad sharply-margined 

 smooth and shining transverse channel. Abdomen narrower, 

 much more delicately sculptured, finely pruinose-pubescent 

 (not coarsely hairy) above, at sides with rather abundant 

 long pale hair ; apex rounded, rather narrow ; second 

 ventral segment with a pair of low transversely elongated 

 shining tubercles, third with a pair of broad conical 

 tubercles. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Like S. curvicurnis, with the same thickened flagellum, 

 but wings as described for male ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 more shining ; area of metathorax granular, but sharply 

 margined. Abdomen more finely sculptured ; segments 3 to 

 5 with short black hair. 



Hab. Ceylon, 1910 (E. Comber). British Museum. 



The type is a male from Kandy, collected in February ; 

 another male is labelled " Kandy," March. Females are from 

 Kandy (February) and Matale (March). Nurse records 

 S. planidens, Giraud, from Quetta, but the occurrence of 

 this Palsearctic genus in Ceylon is very remarkable. 



Melecta formosana, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 14 mm. 



Black, the abdomen stained with reddish, the hind margin 

 of second segment broadly clear ferruginous ; head and 

 thorax with abundant long pale ochreous hair, but very long 

 dark brown hairs on vertex and at extreme sides of face, 



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