G66 JMi. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



liavincr the mandibles oF the male without a light spot, but 

 it is otherwise different. Hritijsh mules, and also the AtViean 

 uif/rofu/vu, have the light spot. 



Mesotrichia rnfusellata, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 15 mm., anterior wing 12'5 mm. 



Black, with the posterior part of mesothorax (less tlinii 

 lialf) and upper surface of scutellum densely covered with 

 ferruginous hair, the red on mesothorax interrupted in 

 middle ; first abdomimd segment dorsally with yellow hair, 

 thin in middle; su|)raclypcal area and sides ot" face with 

 white hair, with some black intermixed, and some light hairs 

 on clypeus; pubescence otherwise black; maxillary i)alpi 

 M'ith first joint short, second and third very long, fourth 

 much shorter than third, last two very small and slender, the 

 fifth shortest ; clypeus flattened, somewhat concave, closely 

 punctured, with a narrow impunctatc median line ; a raised 

 keel-like reversed U has its base ahove the supraely[)cal 

 area, aud its diverging sides part May down the lateral 

 margins of chpeus; scape long and curved; flagelium 

 beyond the base red beneath ; ocelli small ; vertex well 

 punctured ; mesothorax bare, shining and inipunctate in 

 middle ; tegnhe dark brown. Wings dark fuliginous 

 throughout, strongly purj)le; middle and hiiul tibite short, 

 aud their basitarsi long; claws and tips of tarsi red ; abdo- 

 men well punctured. The name is derived from the red 

 saddle-like mark on the thorax. 



Maritzburg, Natal, Feb. 1919 [E. Warren). "Boring in 

 suutiower." 



A species of the Cnffra group, easily known by its small 

 size and the area of red hair on thorax. It is not a colour- 

 variety of c^it'/.9«, Klug, being suuiller and more slender, with 

 tlje facial elevation quite different. The specimen was sent 

 from the Natal Museum to Mr. Ccdric Dover in Calcutta, 

 who forwarded it to me. It will be returned to the Natal 

 Museum. 



Andrena hirticornis, Perez. 



A male in the collection of the Rev. F. D. Morice has four 

 submarginal cells on one side, an al)normality I have never 

 observed before. The insect has the general stylo aiul size 

 of A. suerinensis, Friese ; stigma ferruginous ; second sub- 

 marginal cell broad, receiving first recurrent nervure in 

 middle; head very broad, face with pale ferruginous hair; 

 thorax with red hair. 



