Records of Bees, 481 



the following characters can be made out : mandibles largely 

 yellow ; face densely covered with white hair ; scape swollen, 

 yellow in front ; mesothorax all black ; tubercles yellow ; 

 scutelluui with yellowish or reddish spots ; metathorax and 

 ])leiira all black ; venation and colour of stigma as in pyri- 

 fera ; first al)doniinal segment with basal half black, apical 

 half red, and two large yellow spots, not fur apart, oji the 

 red ; second segment with pyriform marks larger, meeting 

 in the middle line; segments 3 to 6 with entire yellow 

 bands; apical plate feebly notched ; veuter with yellow 

 bauds. 



Andrena melanospila, sp. n. 



? . — Length 10 ram. 



Black, the head and thorax with copious moderately long- 

 hair, dull white on face, cheeks, and pleura, pale fulvous on 

 ()cci[)utand dorsum of thorax (brightest on scutelluui), but 

 black on mesothorax posteriorly, and ou front and. vertex ; 

 malar space linear ; process of labrura rather narrow, 

 obi use; clypeus brightly polished, with sparse small [junc- 

 tures ; facial fovete broad, dark brown, not extending- below 

 level of antennse ; antennae dark; third joint much longer 

 than fourth, but not quite as long as fourth and fifth; 

 mesothorax tiull and granular, shining posteriorly ; scutellum 

 shining, without evident punctures; area of metathorax 

 dull and finely granular ; tegulse piceous. Wings dusky, 

 the large stigma and nervures dull reddish ; b. n. meeting 

 t.-m. ; second s.m. receiving first r. n. distinctly beyond 

 middle; scopa of hind tibiae white in front and black behind. 

 Abdomen dull, not punctured; second segment depressed 

 scarcely a fourth ; hind margins of segments 2 to 4 with 

 narrow pure white hair-bands; caudal fimbria purplish 

 black. 



Soochow, China (N. Gist Gee). U.S. Nat. Museum. 



In the Palsearctic fauna this falls near to A. denticulata 

 (Kirby), from which it is easily separated by the narrow 

 white abdominal bands and the black and white iiair ot hind 

 tibia?. It is not Lke any of the species desciibed by Strand 

 from Tsingtau. The abdominal bands are as in A. ivilkellu, 

 but that has an entirely different clypeus. 



Andrena deliculula, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length 8 mm. 



15lack, sui)(;rfieially exactly like A. albicrus, but lunning 

 in tables of Palsearctic species to A. lupponica, whicli is a 

 Ann. cf- Mag. i.V. IJ'iHt. ISer. l>. Vol. ii. o5 



