BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



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C. quartince, which is readily separated by the abdominal 

 markings. 



Anthophora sapiens n.sp. 



9 Length about 15 mm., robust, though not quite so robust 

 as .1 . einendata yilhcrtl, to which it runs in my table (in 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct., 1905, p. 394) : hair of head and 

 thorax about as in .4. gilbert i, except that the hair of clypeus 

 is all very dark fuscous ; that of thorax above is rust-red 

 mixed with black ; clypeus densely punctured, black, except 

 for three very obscure yellowish spots near the lower margin : 

 supraclypeal mark almost entirely obsolete ; lateral face- 

 marks consisting of short whitish bands running close to 

 clypeal margin : labruni with a very broad dull yellowish- 

 white band, occupying nearly half its svirface : mandibles 

 with a large pale yellow patch : scape wholly dark : flagellum 

 red at extreme apex ; tegulge ferruginous ; wings strongly 

 brownish, shorter than in .1. (/iJberfl: venation normal; hair 

 on outer side of hind tibiae light red, without any dark 

 streak, on inner side black : abdominal bands brilliant pale 

 greenish-golden, flushed with pink at sides, that on first seg- 

 ment narrow ; ventral hair-bands black or dark fuscous in 

 middle, pale yellowish at sides ; apical hair of fifth segment 

 dark rufous (in A . f/ilberti black, with white at sides) : apical 

 plate broader at end than in .4 . f/ilherti. 



Q Var. a. Clypeus with a light reversed T : abdominal 

 bands coloured as in A. (jilherti, though somewhat narrower; 

 hair of clypeus dark as in type ; hair of labrum dark fuscous 

 (white in .4. gilherfi) : fifth abdominal segment with hair 

 coloured nearly as in .4. gilherfi: apical plate narrow, about 

 as in .4. gilherti. 



//„&. —Solomon Islands, July-August, 1909(W. W. Frog- 

 gatt. No. C 2 ; var. a. No. C 3). A member of the A . zonafn 

 group, related to the Australian .4 . gilherti, and to .4 . fer- 

 natensis from Ternate. The variety, represented by a single 



