HYMENOPTERA. 



10. COLLETES PILOSA. 



Colletes pilosa, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 me ser. i. 307. 51 ; 



Exped. d'Egypte, t. 7. f. 24? 

 Hab. Egypt. 



11. COLLETES INTRICANS. 



Colletes intricans, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 aae ser. i. 507. 52. 

 Hab. Egypt. 



12. COLLETES CANESCENS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. Black, the face clothed with white 

 pubescence ; the anterior margin of the clypeus reflexed and 

 deeply furrowed, the head closely punctured ; the disk of the 

 thorax coarsely punctured and clothed with pubescence of a dirty 

 white colour, at the sides and beneath it is white; the wings 

 hyaline, not clouded at their apex ; the abdomen closely punc- 

 tured, the basal segment coarsely so ; the apical margins of all 

 the segments have a continuous fascia of snow-white pubescence. 

 Hab. Algeria. 



13. COLLETES FASCIATA, n. s. 



Female. Length 6 lines. The face thinly clothed with ochra- 

 ceous pubescence ; the clypeus rugose, with elongate punctures 

 which run into irregular striae ; thorax strongly punctured, its pu- 

 bescence ochraceous, intermixed with fuscous hairs on the disk ; 

 beneath the post-scutellum is a rugose enclosed space ; wings 

 fusco-hyaline, the tegulse and nervures rufo-testaceous; the legs 

 are dark rufo-testaceous, their pubescence ochraceous ; the floccus 

 is of the same colour, and also the scopa on the posterior tibiae. 

 Abdomen obconical ; the apical margins of the segments have a 

 broad fascia of short orange-coloured pubescence ; beyond the 

 third, covering the entire exposed part; the sixth segment co- 

 vered with black pubescence, beneath black, the margins of the 

 segments narrowly testaceous. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



14. COLLETES NIGRIVENTRIS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black, the face and the thorax 

 above clothed with fulvous pubescence ; on the latter beneath as 

 well as the head it is a little paler ; the anterior and intermediate 

 femora have beneath a long fringe of pale fulvous pubescence ; 

 that on the posterior femora, as well as that on the legs, other- 

 wise is black, excepting on the tarsi beneath, where it is ferrugi- 

 nous ; all the claws ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, their mar- 



