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clypeus is distinctly and closely punctured except at the apex ; its top is 

 more closely punctured than the centre ; the face is closely punctured ; the 

 labrum is rufous ; it becomes obliquely narrowed towards the apex ; the 

 middle is slightly roundly incised at the apex. The front and vertex are 

 alutaceous, opaque ; the former is obscurely longitudinally striated. Mandibles 

 black ; the apex and the lower side of the base rufous. The hair on the 

 thorax is long, dense and clear white, the mesonotum is furrowed down the 

 middle at the base and is punctured slightly, as is also the scutellum. The 

 area on the median segment is obscurely obliquely striated on the sides ; the 

 middle at the base is irregularly and weakly reticulated. Legs rufous; the 

 coxa? and the 4 anterior femora black ; the hair on the femora is long and 

 clear white ; on the tibiae it has a slight fulvous tint ; on the metatarsus the 

 fulvous tint is more distinct ; the knees are black. Wings clear hyaline ; the 

 stigma is fuscous, the nervures blacker in tint. The -basal 3 segments of 

 the abdomen are rufous ; the base and ventral surface are covered with soft 

 white hair ; the apices of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments are banded with 

 white hair ; the 5th segment above is thickly covered with long sooty black 

 hair ; its sides with long white hair ; the 6th segment is almost bare in the 

 middle ; the sides are thickly covered with long black hair. 



The <£ is similarly coloured ; the basal segments of the abdomen may be 

 marked with black in the middle or laterally. 



Andrena leaena, sp. nov. 



Black ; the greater part of the flagellum rufous ; the head and thorax 

 covered with white pubescence ; the abdominal segments with their apices 

 banded with white pubescence ; the anal segment above covered with longish 

 rufous pubescence •, the wings hyaline, the stigma testaceous. 9 . 



Length 7 — 8 mm. 



Habitat. — Ferozepore, Deesa. 



Antennae black, the 6th and following joints of the antennas rufous ; the 

 scape on the underside covered with long white hair. The face, clypeus and 

 front are covered thickly with long white hair ; the upper orbits to the hinder 

 ocelli are bordered by a broad band of pale fulvous pubescence ; the occiput 

 and outer orbits are covered with long white pubescence. The front and 

 vertex are alutaceous, almost punctured ; the hinder part of the vertex is ob- 

 scurely punctured behind ; the clypeus is more distinctly punctured than the 

 face. The labrum has the sides obliquely narrowed towards the apex, which 

 is transverse ; the part beneath it is thickly covered with longish rufous hair. 

 The mandibles beneath are rufous, and their lower side, at the base, is fringed 

 with long rufous hair. The hair on the mesonotum is sparser and shorter 

 than it is on the pleurae ; the scutellum is fringed thickly with long hair round 

 the sides and apex and also on the post-scutellum. The area on the median 

 segment is closely punctured ; its basal half irregularly longitudinally striated ; 

 there is a shallow median furrow on the apical slope. Legs black ; the 4 

 apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the hair on the femora and tarsi is 



