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with pale hair, bright ferruginous on inner side of tarsi ; 

 spurs light ferruginous. Abdomen rather broad, convex, 

 finely and distinctly punctured, the third segment more 

 closely than the second ; surface thinly hairy, and segments 

 2 to 4 with thin but entire and rather broad white hair- 

 bands, not conspicuous ; sixth segment with long dark hairs, 

 indicating dark hair at apex in female. 



Murree Hills, Punjab, 7500 ft., May 1920,3 S {Butt). 

 {Fletcher, 119, 132, 13:1) 



The sculpture of the metathorax recalls^, morosa, but the 

 species is distinct from all described from India in the male 

 sex, and 1 do not think it can be associated with any of the 

 females. In the European table it runs near A. simillima, 

 Smith, but the abdomen is much broader and duller, and 

 there are many other differences. The abdominal bands are 

 not dense and white at the sides as in A. heteropoda, Ckll. 

 There is a very close superficial resemblance to A. afzeliella, 

 Kirby (ovatula, Kirby). 



Nomioides taprohance (Cameron). 



The type of Ceratina taprobance, in the Rothney collection, 

 is Qi Nomioides. It is very small; clypeus yellow, with two 

 black spots close together; mesothorax dark green; anterior 

 and middle tibise and tarsi wholly yellow. Ceylon. 



SuDiLA, Cameron. 



This genus, based on three forms from Ceylon, could be 

 regarded as a subgenus of Halictus, but may perhaps retain 

 generic rank. I made the following notes from the types in 

 the Rothney collection. 



Sudila ceylonica, Cameron. 



$ . — Clypeus produced, but malar space short ; venation 

 ordinary, b. n. falling short of nervulus ; area of metathorax 

 large, hardly defined, not plicate at all ; hind legs with short 

 hair, but the femora with a good curled pollen-collecting 

 scopa; abdomen fusiform. 



Sudila hidentata, Cameron, 



S ' — Head very large, quadrate, with great flattened 

 cheeks with a great dentiform angle below ; clypeus with 

 two very large long parallel teeth^ somewhat curved down- 

 ward ; mandibles extremely long, crossing, strongly curved, 

 red, with an inner tooth or angle ; anterior border of 

 prothorax very strongly elevated, with red margin. The first 



