34 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOME ORIENTAL BEES. 

 By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Halictus (Evytceus) kandiensis, sp. n. 



2 . Length about or a little over 6 mm., anterior wing slightly 

 over 5 mm. ; pure black, the scanty and short hair of head and thorax 

 dull white ; head broad-oval, face narrowed below, vertex and cheeks 

 normal, but ocelli remote from eyes ; scape long, flagellum very dark 

 brownish beneath ; front dull, supraclypeal area and clypeus mode- 

 rately shining, clypeus produced ; mesothorax dullish and granular, 

 but shining at sides ; scutellum shining ; postscutellum densely 

 tomentose basally ; area of metathorax large, covered all over with 

 very fine longitudinal striae, producing a file-like effect ; posterior 

 truncation rather small, its margins above the middle rounded ; tegulae 

 shining dark reddish ; wings strongly dusky, reddish, stigma and 

 nervures piceous, stigma large, first r. n. meeting second t. c. ; hind 

 spur with a few long teeth ; abdomen shining, slightly granular, but 

 a lens shows no punctures ; second and third segments with narrow 

 white basal bands, feeble in the middle, but not much broadened at 

 sides ; second to fourth segments, except in middle, with thin incon- 

 spicuous apical hair-bands ; apical margins of segments faintly 

 brownish. Microscopical characters : clypeus minutely roughened, 

 with sparse piliferous punctures ; front minutely rugulose, with ex- 

 cessively minute well separated punctures ; mesothorax very feebly 

 sculptured, minutely tessellate, with scattered minute punctures ; 

 area of metathorax quite dull, the minute striae (more properly raised 

 lines) very regular ; abdomen finely transversely lineolate. 



Hab. Kandy, Ceylon, February, 1910 (E. Comber). British 

 Museum. 



Runs in Bingham's tables (Fauna Brit. India) to the vicinity 

 of H. timidus (which has a rufo-testaceous abdomen) and H. 

 gutturosus (which has a small, rugose, metathoracic area, and 

 clear wings). It is also to be compared with H. torridus, Cam., 

 which has clear hyaline wings, with pale nervures. The sculp- 

 ture of the metathorax suggests H. ceylonicus, Cam., which, 

 however, is larger, and has brassy tints. 



Allodape picitarsis, Cameron. 

 Bingham does not record Allodape from Ceylon, but Mr. 

 Comber took a female of this genus at Sigiri in that island, 

 March, 1910. It is A. picitarsis, described from the Leccadive 

 Islands, as I have determined by means of a cotype of Cameron's 

 species in my collection. 



Tetraloniella calidula, sp. n. 

 $ . Length about 11 mm. ; flagellum 8 or almost ; anterior wing 

 1\ ; black, covered with light fulvo-ochraceous hair, nowhere mixed 

 with black, but ferruginous on inner side of basitarsi ; clypeus entirely 

 lemon-yellow, densely rugoso-punctate ; labrum yellow; mandibles 

 ferruginous apically, basally black with a very large triangular yellow 



