364 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Segment ^vitll a very lajgc, projectino:, median apical tuft of 

 wliite hair ; the hitoral pieces of the genitalia (stipites) 

 appear as broad, black, convex, hi<>hly polisiieil plates, ante- 

 riorly be.^et with long spreading hairs, i)Ut the apical tufts of 

 hair are long and oonvt'r;;ent, meeting in the middle line. 



Qiietta, India, Jnly 1902 {Surse). 



liesembles C. hi/hfiformis, Ev., but is easily separated by 

 the much more finely punctured abdomen and the longer 

 stigma. 



CoUetes brevkectus, sp. n. 



(J. — Length about 9 mm., anterior wing 5"8 mm. 



Black, with apex of clypeus, mandibles, and labrum (which 

 has strong longitudinal keels) ferruginous ; flagellunj dusky 

 reddish beneath ; legs reddish brown, the tarsi paler; sides 

 of first abdominal segment ventrally red ; hair of head and 

 thorax dense and white, tinged with creamy on upper part of 

 face and on thoracic dorsum ; hair of thorax above very siiort 

 and dense, short-plumose, and moss-like (as in C. carinatus, 

 Kads.j and C aherrans, Ckll.) ; malar space nearly twice as 

 broad as long; fourth antennal joint distinctly longer than 

 third, filth conspicuou-ly longer tlian fourth ; mesoihorax and 

 scutellum so hidden by iiair tliat the sculpture cannot be seen ; 

 metatliorax very hairy. Legs with white hair, dense on hind 

 tibiae in front; tegulte pale testaceous. Wings clear, stigma 

 dusky red, nervures fuscous. Abdomen dullish, densely and 

 rather finely punctured, so as to appear rugose ; five broad 

 white fell-like hair-bands, and white hair also at extreme 

 base of second segment ; filth ventral with no long median 

 tutt. 



Qnetta, Lidia, August 1902 {Nurse). 



delated to C. carinatus, lluds., but smaller, with no very 

 strong coi\trast between the punctures of the first and second 

 abdominal segments. 



C alio xys poly cent r Is taurus (Nurse). 



Col. Nurse gave me five males, which he took at Quetta in 

 June 1'.IU3. One of these has been labelled C. polycentris, 

 Foerst., by Friese, and Nurse accepts the reference. It 

 happens, however, that the specimen seeii by Friese has the 

 upper apical teeth of abdomen represented by two short 

 denticles on each side, as is usual in poli/codris; but the 

 other specimens show that the usual condition in taurus is 

 that of a stout superior tooth on each side, the second one 

 being wholly absent or represented by a slight rudiment. 



