288 ]\Ir. T. D. A. ('ockerell — Descriptions and 



with very long ]iure wliite hair ; front, vertex, sides of face, 

 and iippt r part of cheeks anferi )ily ^Yith bhick hair ; thorax 

 witii very h'li^- hair, mixed };rey and white, daik on scutcllum, 

 shilling- w hite on nicsojilenra ; teguhc bhick, very hairy. 

 AVings hyaline. Legs slender, with long bhick and white 

 hair, daik chocolate on inner side of tarsi; apical joint of 

 middle tarsi with no noticeable fringe ; hind basitarsns long 

 and broadened. Abdomen not banded or spotted, but with a 

 profusion of loiio- erect hair, which is mostly greyish white, 

 but black on discs of fourth and following segments, though 

 wliite and very long at sides. 



Hub. Quetta, India, March li)OG (Frank Benloii). 



Closely allied to A.connexa (Nurse), also from Quetta; 

 but according to Nurse's description connexa has the clypeus 

 all yellow, the apical tarsal joints more or less rufo-testaceous, 

 the blackish hair of abdomen confined to the apical two 

 seoments, and the front with white hair. It thus seems 

 j)robuble that our insect is a distinct species, thougli it may 

 be only a variet}'. There is a pencil of white hair on each 

 side of front, a little above level of antennas. The general 

 appearance of the insect is very like that of Teiralonia 

 2)07nona. 



Anthophora (Micrantkophora) albopicta, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 11 mm., anterior wing 8 mm. 



Black, including the legs and antennas, but mandibles 

 ferruginous with the lower basal corner broadly black ; 

 labium black, with a very broad white band down the 

 middle ; clypeus with a large apical white triangle, atteimated 

 above, this on a light ferruginous field, w Inch extends as a 

 band to upper margin, but the upper half of clypeus black 

 exccjjt in middle; eyes greyish ochreous, converging below, 

 the front very broad ; tlagelluin very obscurely reddish 

 beneath ; third anteniial joint about G40 microns long, 

 the next three together about 735 ; maxillary palpi with 

 stout bristles, except on the last two joints ; third joint of 

 labial palpi 560 microns from base to origin of fourth joint; 

 pubescence very pale ochreous, nearly white, long on head 

 and thorax ; on liead and thorax above with black hairs 

 intermixed ; mesothorax extremel}' deiisel}' punctured ; 

 legulaj piceous. Wings hyaline, wiih a very faint brownish 

 tint. Legs with creamy white hair, rusty black on inner 

 side ot hind libise and tarsi, anterior and middle tibiae with a 

 small patch of ferruginous hair at apex. Abdomen broad, 



