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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
India, but I have not seen any from China, the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, nor from 
Australia ; the known number of species is about one hundred. 
12. Crocisa histrio, Eabr. 
Nomada histrio, Fabr., Ent. Syst., ii, 345. 
Meleda histrio, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., iii. 
• Fabr., Syst. Piez., 385. 
• Spin., Ins. Ligui-., i, 153. 
Crocisa histrio, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv, 172. 
St. Farg., Hym., ii, 454. 
Eversm., Bull. Mose., xxv, 104. 
Sab. — Taken in the neighbourhood of Yarkand, also at Yangihissar. Found also in 
Southern France, Russia and Algeria. 
13. Crocisa intruders, Fig. 8. 
Femina. — C. nigra, capite, thoraceque, pedibusque albo variegatis, scutello emarginato. 
Black ; the face and cheeks covered with dense snow-white pubescence, on the vertex 
it is shorter and thinner ; the clypeus porrect, the mandibles ferruginous. The anterior 
margin and sides of the thorax covered with white pubescence ; the mesothorax with three 
spots anteriorly, the central one oblong, the other two ovate ; also two quadrate spots 
posteriorly, of white pubescence ; the scutellum deeply cmarginate and having a little white 
pubescence in the emargination ; the tibiae white outside; wings hyaline, their apical 
margins slightly clouded. Abdomen, a broad band of white pubescence at the base and 
a narrower one on the apical margin of the segments, all slightly interrupted in the 
middle. Female, length 3^ lines. 
Sab. — Neighbourhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. 
This genus of bees is not numerous in species ; only about twelve are at present known, 
but their distribution is extensive ; they have occurred in Europe, North Africa, Natal, South 
Africa, Ceylon, India, in various islands of the Eastern Archipelago, China, and Australia. 
14. Anthophora vigilaxs. 
Mas. — A. nigra , pallide villosa, thorace jlavescente, abdominis segmentis pallido-mar - 
ginatis. 
Black; the mandibles, labram, anterior margin of the clypeus, and a central line 
uniting with it, white ; the tips of the mandibles rufo-piccous, and two minute black spots 
at the base of the labrum ; the pubescence on the face yellowish white, the thorax wit i 
similar pubescence above ; the posterior tibiae and tarsi with white pubescence. Abdomen , 
the apical margins of the segments pale testaceous and having fasciae of white pubescence- 
The wings clear hyaline. Male, length 5 lines. 
Sab . — Dras, Kargil, and Leli, all in Ladak. 
