244 Mr. T. D. A. Cockercll — Description a and 



fourtli anil fifth eacli abiiit 175 (tlio proportions about as in 

 A. clarkeUii) ; niesothorax dull, vory inconspicuously punc- 

 tured, with a median groove ; scutelluni shining, with very 

 fine scattered punctures ; area of nietathorax dull, without 

 evident sculpture, poorly defined ; teguho dark reddish. 

 AVings hyaline, faintly dusky ; stigma amber-colour, iicr- 

 vures pale fuscous; b.n. going basad of t.-m. ; first r. n. 

 joining second s.m. considerably beyon 1 middle. Legs with 

 white hair, tinged with golden on inner side of tarsi ; tibial 

 scopa abundant and pure white. Abdomen dullish, without 

 evident sculpture (there are excessively minute punctures) ; 

 segments with narrow white hair-bands, reduced to lateral 

 patches on first, broadly interrupted on second, slightly or not 

 on third and fourth ; apical hair white, faintly stained with 

 brownish around the plate ; second segment depressed 

 hardly a third. The facial fovea? are broad, white, stained 

 with brownish at upper &\\<\. 



cJ . — Length about 8"5 mm. 



]\rore slender, with all the tibiae and basitarsi black ; face 

 with abundant white hair (no black at sides) ; clypeus black, 

 shining ai\d distinctly punctured, with a median ridge on 

 npper part ; mandibles red at end, simple at base ; cheeks 

 ordinary, hairy; flagellum obscurely brown ])eueath ; third 

 antennal joint scarcely longer than fourth (proportions about 

 as in A. nifjriceps) ; abdomen rather more shining. 



Quetta, India ; numerous specimens of each sex taken by 

 Col. C. G. Nurse. One male is dated July 1903. 



The female resembles .1. loilkella, Kirby, but is less robust, 

 with head not so broad, and sides of face with pure white 

 hair. In the table in ' Apidas Europrea3 ' it runs out at 188, 

 and the male runs to 160; but the species is very distinct 

 from A. soror, L. Duf. A. anonyma, Cam., has a similar 

 <lull niesothorax, but differs by the broad second s.m. and the 

 i)rilliant white bands of abdomen, those of haleropodd b ;ing 

 rather inconspicuous, though clear white. A. anjiii/mu has a 

 led clypeal mark, wanting in heteropoda. 



Andrena cryptodonta, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 9 mm. 



Black, including the mandibles, antennte, and legs; head 

 and thorax with pure white hair, abundant on face and sides 

 of raetathorax; inner tooth of mandibles sometimes red ; 

 just above base of mandibles, behind, is a small rounded 

 dentiform tubercle ; j)rocess of labrum emarginate ; clypeus 

 very hairy, indistinctly punctured, with a broad median 



