(>G8 On a new Form of Y,[)\\\c\)]\c\i.\ from Ci/reniilcii. 



second. M. apif arm is ha.'s the mandibles lart<ely red iipirally; 

 basa/is has them broadly and suffusedly dark reddish. 

 According to Friese, M. apiformis is the female of M. unt/u- 

 lata, Sm. 



Megachile malayana auriceps, Meade-Waldo. 



Ekeikei, ISIew Guinea, April 1903, 3 ? (Pratt). Cam- 

 bridge University Museum. Perhaps a distinct species. 



Xylocopa simil/ima, Smitii. 



Meade- Waldo has appended a note in British Museum : — 

 " Almost certainly not Australian. New Holland is the 

 locality given in Children's collection, whence the specimens 

 came.'' 



? . — Al)domen dull red, black apically, the segments with 

 narrow black bands. Wings very dark, shilling puij)lish. 

 Two females from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have exactly 

 the aspect of simtUima, but Meade-Waldo notes : " Differ by 

 pronounced keel on clypeus, and longer second abcissa of 

 radial cell." 



Andrena ruficornis, Smith. 



Canary Is. 



I found this in the Oxford Museum^ and noted the 

 following characters : — Expanse about 26 mm., antenufe ami 

 legs red, hind femora dark ; anterior wings fulioinous, base 

 and second discoidal cell hyaline, orange-tinted ; second 

 sul)marginal cell very broad, receiving first recurrent nervurc 

 about middle ; mesothorax with strong sparse punctures ; 

 area of metathorax very small, with strong rugie ; abdomen 

 shining, very finely punctured, ^\ithout hair-hands or spots. 



LXXXI. — On a ntiv Form o/" Epiiiepliele//om Cyremdca. 

 By Lord RoTiibCiiiLD, E.K.IS. 



Epinephele I'da ci/renaiac, subsp. n. 



(J. Differs from ida ula in having tlie black patches of 

 andiocoiiial scales inucli reduced, coiisi.stiiig of narrow lines 

 only. On the underside of tiie iiiiid wings the irroration i.s 

 obsolete, almost absent, the colour dark brown, NOT grey, and 

 the white postmedian band very distinct, almost as in 

 pasiphae. 



Type, Diiama, Cyrcnaica, April Oili, 11)22 (10 (J J, E»»ist 

 HaiterL and Cail llilgert leg.). 



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