362 C. T. Bingham : Aculeate Hymenoptera. [Voi,. 11^ 



witli transverse bands of similar but shorter and recumbent pubes- 

 cence on the apical margins of segments i to 4 (in the type and 

 only specimen available, these bands are more or less abraded); 

 anal rima black, apex of abdomen with [ferruginous pubescence. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen minutely punctured, the punctures 

 dense on the front of the head and the vertex, and on the 

 thorax, above and on the sides, more scattered on the clypeus 

 anteriorly and on the abdomen above. Head broader than the 

 thorax, lenticular, posteriorly widely emarginate ; clypeus convex, 

 broader than long, its anterior margin transverse ; antennae short, 

 stout, opaque, second joint of flagellum shorter than the third; 

 ocelli in a curve just below the vertex ; vertex arched. Thorax 

 short; mesonotum convex; scutellum broad, wedge-shaped, trun- 

 cate posteriorly; postscutellum sunk, densely pubescent; median 

 segment compressed, vertical posteriorly, the enclosed space at 

 base finely and very densely punctured, separated from the 

 postscutellum by a sharp, curved, shining carina; legs stout, 

 black beneath, rufous above on the femora, tibiae and tarsi; 

 wings hyaline ; nervures and stigma pale brown. Abdomen 

 shining, the margins of the segments where the pubescence is 

 abraded, rufo- testaceous. 



Length. — $ ., 8 ; exp. 17 mm. 



Hab. — Himalayas : Simla hills, Theog, 8,000 ft. 



A race or representative form of the European H. calceatus, 

 Scopoli, from which it differs in being much narrower in shape 

 and somewhat smaller. The enclosed space at the base of the 

 median segment in the European form is much more coarsely 

 punctured, and has the sides of that segment rugulose and not 

 smooth and shining. 



Anthrena floridula, Smith. 



Andrena floridula, Smith, Second Yarkand Mission, Hym., 

 p. 2, fig. 4 of plate ; Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, p. 444. 

 Hab. — Himalayas : Simla hills, Phagu, Theog, 8,000 ft. 



Anthrena moris, Brulle. 



Andrena moris, Brulle, Exped. Sc. Morea, Zool., ii, 1832, 

 P- 353, Pl- 49, figs. 8, 9. ^ 



Var. Andrena lugubris , Erichs., M. Wagner, Reise in Algeria, 

 iii, 1840, p. T91, 5 cf . 



Hab. — Himalayas : Simla hills, Matiana, 8,000 ft. 



A solitary specimen quite indistinguishable from specimens 

 from Northern Africa. . , . 



Anthrena brunneipennis, form nov. 



9 . Black, densely pubescent. The pubescence pale yellow on 

 the head, the front and sides of the thorax, and on the abdomen, 

 very long, tufted and hoary on the thorax posteriorly and on the 



