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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SOME NEW 



SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA CAPTURED BY 



LIEUT.-COL. C. G. NURSE AT DEESA, 



MATHERAN AND FEROZEPORE. 



BY 



P. Cameron. 



Anthophila. 



Hatictus matheranensis, sp. nov. 



Black, covered with white pubescence ; the apex of the antennae rufous ; the 

 area on median segment irregularly reticulated ; the apex of the segment 

 keeled round the top and sides ; the wing hyaline, stigma and nervures pale te- 

 staceous. £ . 



Length 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Matheran. 



Antennas black, the 5 or 6 apical joints rufous beneath ; the scape sparsely 

 haired. The face, clypeus and outer orbits are covered thickly with white 

 hair ; the front and vertex much more sparsely with shorter darker pubescence J , 

 they are opaque, finely rugose ; the clypeus bears round distinctly separated 

 punctures, which are large in the centre at the apex, which is obliquely de- 

 pressed, and is fringed with long pale golden hair. Mandibles black, broadly 

 bright rufous before the middle. Mesonotum and scutellum closely and uni- 

 formly punctured and covered with whitish pubescence ; that on the scutellum 

 is much the longer. Post-scutellum thickly covered with depressed white 

 pubescence. The area on the median segment bears irregularly twisted longi- 

 tudinal striae which almost form reticulations, the apical is slightly hollowed, 

 and is bordered at the top and sides by a stout keel ; the keel on the top is 

 narrower, and is bent downwards slightly. The propleura at the top projects 

 into a ridge ; the pronotum above this is thickly covered with depressed white 

 pubescence ; the base of the projection is oblique. The legs are piceoua black ; 

 the pubescence is white ; the calcaria white with a faint rufous tinge ; the 

 apices of the tarsal joints rufous, the calcaria bear some dark rufous spines. 

 The abdomen is shining ; the punctuation is only visible with a strong lens ; the 

 base of the segments covered with depressed white pubescence ; the apical ones 

 have also longish white hairs ; the rima is rufous. 



Andrena ilercla, sp. nov. 



Black ; the basal 3 segments of the abdomen red ; the head and thorax 

 thickly covered with white hair ; the 3rd, 4th and 5th abdominal segments 

 lined with white pubescence at their apices ; the wings clear hyaline, the 

 stigma dark rufous ; the apical half of the clypeus and the labrum rufous. $ . 



Length 13 mm. 



Habitat. — Ferozepore. 



The basal 3 joints of the antennas black ; the others dark rufous below, 

 black above. The hair on the head is long, dense and clear white ; the- 



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