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SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
India, but I liave 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 histeio, Eabr. 
Nomada liistrio, Fabr., Ent. Syst., ii, 345. 
Melecta liistrio, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., iii. 
--Fabr., Syst. Piez., 385. 
-Spin., Ins. Ligur., i, 153. 
Crocisa liistrio, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv, 172. 
-- - - - St. Farg., Hym., ii, 454. 
-Eversm., Bull. Mosc., xxv, 104. 
Sab. —Taken in the neighbourhood of Yarkand, also at Yangihissar. Eound also in 
Southern Erance, Hussia and Algeria. 
13. Crocisa intruders, Eig. 8. 
Eemina.— C. nigra, capite, thoraceque, peclihusque 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 emarginate 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. Eemale, 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. Axthophora vigilaxs. 
Mas.-— nigra, pallide villosa, tliorace flavescente, abdominis segmentis pallido-mar- 
ginatis. 
Black; the mandibles, labrum, anterior margin of the clypeus, and a central line 
uniting with it, white; the tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous, and two minute black spots 
at the base of the labrum; the pubescence on the face yellowish white, the thorax with 
similar pubescence above; the posterior tibiae and tarsi with white pubescence. Abdomen; 
the apical margins of the segments pale testaceous and having fascia of white pubescence. 
The wings clear hyaline. Male, length 5 lines. 
Sab. —Dras, Kargil, and Leh, all in Eadak. 
