192 MESSRS. C. HORNE AND F. SMITH ON HYMENOPTERA 
and there produced into an angular point, and the posterior margins of the bands 
irregularly notched. 
Hab. Binsur, Kumaon, North-west Provinces of India. 
Fam. APID. 
1. MEGACHILE PROXIMA. 
Female. Length 6-7 lines. Head, thorax, and base of the abdomen with fulvous 
pubescence, the segments margined with white. 
Head—the face clothed with fulvous pubescence; the thorax also with fulvous or 
fulvo-ferruginous pubescence above; the tegule ferruginous; the wings subhyaline, 
with a dark fuscous cloud beyond the marginal cell; the intermediate and posterior 
tibiee with a fine silvery pilosity outside, and the basal joint of their tarsi with bright 
short ferruginous pubescence beneath. The basal segment of the abdomen with bright 
ferruginous pubescence; the posterior margin of the second with a narrow fringe of the 
same colour; the border on the third segment is reddish in the middle and white at the 
sides ; the two following are edged with white ; the apical segment is white on each side ; 
the underside is clothed with silvery-white hair, with a fringe of black at the sides. 
Male. This sex is coloured like the female, but has more of the red pubescence at 
the base of the abdomen, its anterior tarsi are simple, and the apical segment of the 
abdomen has no white at the sides, and its margin is notched in the middle. 
This species very closely resembles the J. lanata of Fabricius, and is difficult to 
separate by description: the white pubescence on each side of the apical segment of the 
abdomen distinguishes the female; the males are alike; but both sexes of MW. prowima 
are larger than those of Jf. lanata. The habits of the two species are totally different, 
as pointed out by Mr. Horne. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
2. Ca@LIOXYS ANGULATA. 
Female. Length 5} lines. Jet black, the abdomen with a row of lateral snow-white 
angulated spots. 
Head and thorax strongly and closely punctured; the face on each side of the clypeus 
and the anterior margin of the latter with dense short white pubescence, which also 
covers the head behind the eyes; a white line of pubescence on each side of the meso- 
thorax close to the margins of the tegulw, two minute spots of the same colour at the 
base of the scutellum ; the thorax beneath, as well as the femora, with fine short white 
pubescence; the posterior tibiee are also clothed outside; a stout tooth on each side of 
the scutellum; the posterior margin of the latter rounded. Abdomen shining, finely 
and sparingly punctured; a row of minute snow-white scales along the basal margin 
of the second and following segments, at the lateral margins an angular patch of the 
