290 Descriptions mid Records of Bees. 



l)lack on anterior |)art of sen tell um. and white on lower part 

 of pleura; mesothorax dull, sliLihtly shining on disc ; tetrulse 

 piceous. Wings hj;iliiie, very faintly brownish apically. 

 Legs with long white hair; middle tarsi not modified, nor 

 with any black fringe on last joint ; hind basitarsi not 

 toothed. Abdomen shining, with piliferous punctures, the 

 surface covered with long hair, pale greyish-yellow on first 

 two segments, black on the others, but hind margins of 

 segments 2 to -4 with loose bands of white hair ; venter with 

 long white hair. 



^ . — Length about 16 mm. 



Tongue very long ; no pale face-marks, but a red tubercle 

 on each side of base of labrum, and malar space red ; hair of 

 front pale ; disc of mesothorax and anterior part of scutelluin 

 with some dark hair, not conspicuous ; tegulse rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; patches of fulvous hair at apices of anterior and 

 middle tibiae and on liind knees; hair on inner side of hind 

 tibipe (except base) black, on inner side of hind tarsi largely 

 red, in some lights appearing rich fox-red with black margin ; 

 abdomen with broad pale hair-bands on segments 2 to 4 ; 

 apex with black hair ; apical plate long and nnrrow ; venter 

 with white fringe on segments 2 to 4, but dense black hair 

 on apex of 5. 



Flih. Kotal aialul, S. Persia, Feb. 1906 {Frank Benton), 



2 c?,l ?. 



Kesembles A. cinerea (Friese), from Sarepta, but is con- 

 siderably larger. There is a general resemblance to A. cri- 

 nipes, Sin,, but the middle tarsi are not modified as in that 

 species, and crinipes has a linear malar space. By the white 

 face-marks and prominent clypeus the male resembles 

 A. dives, Dours, of which I have a specimen marked 

 "cotype" from Grribodo, but the legs are entirely different. 

 Friese makes dives a synonym of A. dufourii, Lep., but it is 

 possibly se[)arable, the male (at least) having no metallic 

 colour on abdomen, the middle tarsal joints of middle leg 

 longer and slenderer than in Fiiese's figure, and tlie brusii 

 on last joint wider. They agree, howeveV, in the remaikable 

 hind basitarsi. 



Osmia [Ceratosmia) halucha^ Nurse. 



Quetta, India, March 1906 {Benton). 



The male has the middle femora strongly produced and 

 angulate beneath, but tlie hind basitarsi are not dentate. 



