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with two small louiid black spot-s, the luanflibles black at end, 

 with a baud of red before the black; scape black, flagellurn 

 raliier lon<i^, obscurely reddish beneath ; third aiitcnnal joint 

 very short, not much longer than fourth. Eyes very pale 

 oclueoMs; hair of face, cheeks, and pleura abundant, pure 

 white, of head and thorax above tin<;eil with tawny (especially 

 just behind wings), but not at all ujixed with black ; tegulie 

 pale testaceous. Wings clear hyaline, nervnres reddish. 

 Legs black ; hind iemora not incrassate; hair of legs white ; 

 hind basitarsi with black (slightly brownish) hair on inner 

 side. Abdomen with very broad dense huii-bands, tinged 

 with tawiiy; apex bidentiite ; venter with white hair right 

 across. 



Qlletta, India {Nurse\ 



Closely related to A. dclicata, Ckll., to which it runs in the 

 table in 'Entomologist,' 1911, p. 237. It diflPers by the 

 absence of dark hairs on thorax above, the hair-band on 

 second abdominal segment much broader and strongly tinged 

 with fulvous (pure white in delicata), the spots on labrum, 

 the colour of tiie eyes, the white (instead of black) hair on 

 underside of hind femora, &c. It is also evidently related to 

 A. nigricornis, Morawiiz, but differs by the absence of dark 

 hairs on thorax above, the paler tegulae, and the moderate 

 and not acute bidentation of apex of abdomen. There is a 

 strong siipt'ificial resemblance to A. velocissima, Fedt., also 

 found by Col. Nurse at Quetta. 



Melissodes the/i/podii, Cockerell. 



? . — Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sept. 7, at fhiwers of 

 Ij)oint£u hirsuiula, Jacq. {Cockerell). 



Eucera microsoinuj-w. n. 



Kiicera puniila, Perez, 11)10 ; near Horns, Syria (not 

 E. jntmila, Klug, 1845). 



Tttraloniella graja nursei, subsp. n. 



? (^VP*^)- — I^^'' ferruginous, Avith the hind margins of the 

 abdominal segments brighter and paler red ; pubescence very 

 pale, mainly wiiite, tinged with ochreous on mesothorax and 

 scutellum, where it is short and very dense ; ventral segments 

 of abdomen with reddish-golden hair; eyes pale greenish ; 

 clypeus entirely cream-colour ; anteniiEe entirely bright ferru- 

 ginous; scopa of hind legs creamy white. 



(J . — Anteniue very long, entirely red ; abdomen with 

 dense creamy-white tomenlum. 



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