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smaller than those of thorax (they are about as in S.fusci- 

 pennia) ; first two segments gibbous subapically (especially 

 at sides) and depressed apically ; apical segments with some 

 fuscous hair. 



Hab. Formosa {Sauter). Berlin Museum. 



This type is labelled simply " Formosa " ; others are from 

 Taihanroku, June 4 and 11, 1908. Near to the Indian 

 S.fuscipennis, Smith, but that has only the first abdominal 

 segment constricted apically. Alsorather like the European 

 S. fuscipennis, Rossi. The well-punctured abdomen readily 

 separates it from the Japanese S. japonicus, Ckll. The 

 genus is new to Formosa. 



Andrena formosana, sp. n. 



? .—Length 12-13 mm. 



Black, the small joints of tarsi reddish brown ; hair of 

 liead and thorax above ferruginous, not dense — on vertex it 

 is dark fuscous, on under side of head and thorax it is dull 

 white. Head very broad, facial quadrangle much broader 

 than long ; clypeus large, smooth and shining, with scattered 

 distinct punctures, and a faint median raised line on its 

 low er third ; malar space linear ; process of labrum broadly 

 truncate, the truncation shallowly emarginate; cheeks 

 broadly rounded, ordinary ; face on each side of clypeus 

 rugosely punctured ; facial foveas reddish, broad, occupying 

 at least half distance between eye and antennie, not separated 

 from orbit, ending below slightly below level of upper 

 margin of clypeus ; antennae dark, third joint longer than 

 the next two combined ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, 

 strongly punctured, the punctures sparse ou mesothorax 

 posteriorly and disc of scutellum ; metathorax rugose, basal 

 area triangular, rather poorly defined, irregularly wrinkled 

 and rugose, without any distinct longitudinal ridges, the 

 apical part transversely striate ; tegulae ferruginous, darker 

 basally. Wings strongly dusky ; stigma moderate, dark 

 rufo-piceous, nervures rufo-fuscous ; second s.m. receiving 

 first r. n. at (sometimes before) middle; third s.m, twice as 

 broad as second, narrowed one-half above ; legs normal, 

 inner side of anterior and middle tarsi with reddish hair, 

 but of hind tarsi with purplish sooty ; hair of hind tibiae 

 fuscous posteriorly ; scopa of hind femora and trochanteric 

 floccus white. Abdomen shining, strongly, moderately 

 closely punctured, more sparsely on first segment ; second 

 segment very feebly depressed, less than one-half ; the very 

 scanty hair beyond first segment dark fuscous, as also the 



