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sliiniiio- litl^e ; t'acial i'oveai broad, white, brownish nt ii])per 

 end ; thiid antennal joint about 300 microns long, fourth and 

 fifth each about 1(J0; niesotiioiax and scutellum shinin<:;, with 

 fine easily visil;le punctures ; area of metatiiorax frranuhir 

 and poorly defined, wMth a median tuft of white hair over- 

 lapping it; teguUe dark redtlish. Winj^s clear, apical niar<;in 

 faintly browni.sh ; stigma dull ferruf^inous bordered with 

 fuscous, nervurcs fuscous ; b. n. falling short of t.-m. ; second 

 s.ni. ratiier narrow, receiving first r. n. about middle. Hair 

 of legs white ; tibial scopa rather siiort and stiff, white, with 

 a reddish stain below tiie knee-plate; sjjurs pale red. Abdo- 

 men shining, with distinct but minute ])unctures ; segments 

 with rather broad ])ure white hair-bands, on first segment 

 reduced to a patch on each side, on second broadly inter- 

 rupted, on third and fourth entire ; hair at apex white, faintly 

 stained with brown ; second segment depressed about two- 

 fifths. 



The type is from Peshin, India, April 1903 (yurse); in 

 U.S. National Mu>eum. I have another from Quetta, April 

 11)03 {Xurse). 



A neat little species, which runs in ' Apidre Euro]ne£e ' to 

 197, and runs out. It also runs out in my MS. tables of 

 Indian species. Tiie hind tibiaj are shaped about as in 

 A. vari'ans, but the insect resembles A. dorsata in the abun- 

 dant hair of posterior jjart of thorax. 



Morawitz described fifty-two species of Andrena from 

 Turkestan. Of these I found only tenuis and htrhestanica in 

 the British Museum. The latter apj)ears to be widespread, as 

 there is a specimen at Oxford from Egypt. A. tenuis has 

 been found at Peshin and A. CKssariensis at Kohat ; but, with 

 these exceptions, we have not been able to find the Mora- 

 witzian species in the Indian region. 



In the Caucasus and Transcaucasus is another long series 

 of Andrena with little in common with the Turkestan or 

 Indian faunae. It thus appears that, except for a few wide- 

 ranging species, Andrena in Asia shows very strong local 

 endemism. 



Andrena Jlavipes, Panzer (fulvicrus, Kirby). 



Many specimens of both sexes collected by Col. Nurse in 

 Kashmir, GOOO-7000 ft., April and May 1901. There is also 

 a ? from Simla, Sept. 1898. Perkins found the species 

 double-brooded in England. Morawitz records tliis species 

 from Turkestan, and I am unable to sej)arate the Indian 

 torn). The Indian fenjale, compared with jiavij/es trom Gray, 



