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fulvous above and white below, but front and vertex with 

 much black hair. Abdomen with rather narrow yellowish - 

 white hair-bands on segments 2 to 4 ; apical fimbria very 

 dark chocolate. Scopa of hind tibiae shining pale reddish 

 anteriorly, dark fuscous posteriorly ; hair on inner side of 

 basitarsi pale red ; spurs light ferruginous. Malar space 

 practically obsolete ; process of labrum broad and truncate ; 

 clypeus shining, with strong punctures, an indistinct smooth 

 line ; facial foveae very narrow, bounded on front by long 

 tufts of black hair ; mesothorax polished, with weak incon- 

 spicous punctures ; area of metathorax triangular, dull and 

 granular, the margins shining ; second s.m. broad, receiving 

 first r. n. well beyond middle ; b. n. falling just short of 

 nervulus ; stigma well developed. Abdomen thinly hairy, 

 with weak piliferous punctures ; second segment depressed 

 about a third. 



^ . — Length about 8 mm. 



More slender ; head large, without pale face-markings ; 

 clypeus prominent, with sparse punctures on disc ; cheeks 

 very broad, flattened, polished, sparsely punctured, not 

 dentate ; mandibles of moderate length ; front with black 

 hair ; flagellum moderate, bright ferruginous beneath ; legs 

 black. 



Murree Hills, Punjab, 7500 ft.. May 1920, 5 ? (Dutt); 

 Murree, 7500 ft., June 18, 2 ? , 1 ^^ {Butt). {Fletcher, 50, 

 51, 52,53, 57, 156, 162,165.) 



In Smiedeknecht's table of European species, the female 

 runs to lombardica, Schn., and the male near to basalis, 

 Sichel, but these are not closely related. In my table of 

 Oriental species in the British Museum, A. inurreensis rans 

 to A. familiaris, Smith, but is easily separated by the dark 

 tibise and tarsi of the male. In my table made from the 

 Kothney collection at Oxford, it runs to A. morosa,CRm., 

 but is not the same. I noted of the Rothney collection 

 type oi morosa : larger than A.rothneyi or maligna; clypeus 

 shining, with scattered rather weak punctures; mesothorax 

 very feebly punctured ; red on abdomen confined to apices of 

 first two segments and bases of second and third ; hair at 

 end of abdomen reddish chocolate. Bingham gives the 

 length as 12-13 mm. The British Museum also has a 'Hype" 

 of morosa^ which lacks the red on abdomen and may be 

 distinct. It runs in my table next to levilabris, and is 

 separable thus ( ? ) :— 



Clypeus vrith a large median polished space, 



grooved down middle. morosa, Cam, 



Clypeus closely punctured, without such a space levilabris, Cam. (type). 



