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less brilliantly coloured, and somewhat more coarsely punc- 

 tured ; there is no doubt that they represent a distinct 

 species. My specimens of C. bingkami are from Mr. Sladen, 

 and were collected at Calcutta and Siliguri in 1897. The 

 specimen from Calcutta is more blue than green. 



PrOTOMELECTA, gen. no v. 

 Form Andrena-Wka, with a rather long abdomen ; wings 

 short, not reaching tip of abdomen ; tlagdhun thick, as in 

 Melecta; eyes large and promirRnt; middle ocfdlus in a 

 depression; scutellum aj)parently flat and Crocisa- like, the 

 lateral posterior corners pioduced and angulate, but the 

 interval between the points straight in the middle, not in- 

 cised ; stigma large ; marginal cell long, ending in a rather 

 blunt point not quite on costa; three subniarginal cells, the 

 first longest below, but not very greatly so; second subraar- 

 ginal cell very broad, receiving the first recurrent nervure 

 beyond the middle ; third s.m. greatly narrowed to marginal, 

 receiving the second r. n. beyond the middle ; second r. n. 



Protomelecta brevijyenniff^ sp. n. 



Length about 9 mm. 



Black; anterior wing Sj mm. ; abdomen 5 mm. long or 

 nearly and about 3 wide, extending about 1 mm. beyond 

 closed wings ; wings fuliginous, stigma black, nervures 

 brown ; flagellum thick, about 310 /i diameter. Wings quite 

 hairy ; abdomen with sparse but evident hairs. Ocellar 

 basin (for middle ocellus) oval, about 391 yu, long and 255 

 broad. Basal nervure originating some distance from stigma, 

 its lower part gently curved, but not at all as in the Balic- 

 tines ; thud transvtrdo-cubital with a double curve, formed 

 about as in Xenoylossa ; apex of first discoidal prolonged and 

 sharply pointed. 



The fulluwing wing-measurements are in /i : — 



Depth of stigma 238 ; length of marginal cell 1598, its 

 depth 459; length of first discoidal cell IG49 ; lower side of 

 first subniarginal cell (JIG, of second 595, of third 544 ; lower 

 section of basal nervure G12, the upper very much shorter ; 

 lower side of first discoidal 969 ; first recurrent nervure 663 ; 

 insertion of first r. n. to end of second s.m. 85 ; insertion of 

 second r. n. to end of third s.m. about 85 ; upper side of 

 second s.m. about 459, of third s.m. 187; distance between 

 insertions of tlie recurrent nervures 493. 



llah. Fossil in the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado, 

 Station 14 {W. I\ Cockercll, 1907). 



