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Cameron, Hymcnoptera Orient alia. 



behind the scutellum thickly covered with long pale 

 fulvous pubescence ; the mesonotum covered with short, 

 the scutellum with long, dark fulvous hairs. The area 

 on the median segment triangularly produced in the 

 middle, and longitudinally striolated ; the central striae 

 not reaching to the apex ; the area bare, the rest of the 

 segment covered with long pale fuscous hairs. Meso- 

 pleurae thickly covered with fulvous hairs ; the hairs on 

 the metapleurae sparser and longer. The front femora 

 entirely, beneath and above, and the four posterior entirety 

 on the under side, obscure testaceous, as are also the apices 

 of the tibiae ; the basal joint of the tarsi white; the others 

 white, but with a testaceous tinge. Wings hyaline, the 

 apex slightly infuscated, the stigma and nervures testa- 

 ceous, the former black at the extreme base. The first 

 recurrent nervure is received shortly before, the second 

 shortly beyond, the middle of the cellule. Abdomen 

 shining, the segments shagreened ; their apices thickly 

 fringed with pale hairs ; the last segment testaceous. 

 Ventral segments shining, sparsely covered with long 

 hairs, their apices white ; the last testaceous ; the penul- 

 timate with a shallow depression, wide at base, becoming 

 gradually narrower towards the apex. 



Andrena Rothneyi, sp. nov. 



Nigra; abdominis bast late rufo ; capite thoraceque rufis ; 

 alis hyalinis. Long. 10 — n mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 

 Antennae entirely black ; the scape sparsely covered 

 with long fuscous hairs ; the flagellum with an obscure 

 microscopic pile. Head covered with long pale fulvous 

 hairs, more sparsely on the centre of the clypeus and 

 of the vertex ; the inner orbits of the eyes bordered 

 with a band of pale fulvous depressed pubescence ; the 

 apex of the clypeus fringed with golden hairs ; the clypeus 

 sparsely ; the inner orbits more closely punctured ; the 



