136 DR. J. E. T. AITCHISON ON THE ZOOLOGY OF 



[This species, with Polistes hebrceus, was obtained in old clay buildings on the Helmand, 

 associating together, and so much mixed that at the time it looked as if they were 

 interbreeding. 



I saw no Wasps in the Hari-rud or Badgbis, and no Honey-bees, except once in some 

 mud walls at Karez-ilias. Honey is unknown except from the forest districts.— J. E. T. A.] 



MELLIFEKA. 



AUDRENOi). 



8. Hex^us tttranicus (?). 



Hylmus turanicus, Mot., Fedchenko's Reise, Mellifera, p. 279 (1877). 



Sab. Badgbis. 



A single damaged specimen. 



9. Andrena hattorfiana. 



Nomada hattorfiana, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 389. n. 6 (1775). 



A common and widely distributed European species. 

 Sab. Hari-rud valley and Badghis. 



Apid^e. 



10. Crocisa bedentata, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 19.) 



Male. Length 14 lines. Deep black, strongly punctured; face between the ocelli 

 and labrum, occiput, prothorax, borders and two spots on hind margin of mesothorax, 

 and upper surface of the short broad tibiae, clothed with white pubescence ; scutellum 

 very broad, somewhat convex, the hinder angles strongly produced, and the metathorax 

 also spinose. Abdomen bidentate at apex. Eore wings deep violet-black ; hind wings 

 subhyaline. 



Allied to C. scutellaris, Eabr., but larger, and (in the two specimens before me) with 

 no trace of white markings on the abdomen. 



Sab. Hari-rud valley. 



11. EUCERA CLTPEATA. 



Eucera clypeata, Erichs., Waltl's Reise, ii. p. 108 (1835). 



Common in Southern Europe and Western Asia. 

 Sab. Hari-rud valley. 



12. Tetralonia, sp. 



A single specimen of a black species with white pubescence, not closely allied to any 

 previously contained in the British Museum collection. 

 Sab. Hari-rud valley and Badghis. 



