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outside of the anterior log?, on the outside of the cox.t, femora?, 

 tibise, and metatarsi of the intermediate and posterior legs, and the 

 transverse hands on the abdomen, snow-white ; on the inside of the legs 

 and on the apical joints of the intermediate and posterior tarsi is 

 jet black in conspicuous contrast ; wings hyaline, with an exceed- 

 ingly pelncid glassy look, norvures and tegul;i3 testaceous. 



$. I.enrfth 10 ; e.rj?. 19 mm. 



Ilab. Deesa. 



25. Anthopliora iole, sp. nov. 



^. Allied to and closely resembling the last but structurally 

 different ; head on the vertex above and the liases of all the 

 abdominal segments extremely, minutely, and closely punctured, 

 the puncturing much finer than in the preceding species ; clypeus 

 convex, sub-porrect, its anterior margin transverse not emarginate. 

 i31ack, the labrum, clypeus, the face on either side and above 

 below the base of the anteunap, and the scape of the last in 

 front, pearly-white ; two spots at the base of the labrum ; a broad 

 oblique line on each side of the clypeus, and the margins narrowly both 

 of the clypeus and labrum, black ; the back of the scape and the flagel- 

 lum of the antennae dark castaneous ; the head above the l)ase of the 

 antennas, the thorax above the median segment, and the basal abdomi- 

 nal seo-ments clothed with dense long ochraccous pul)escence, with the 

 tips of the hairs fuscous-l)]ack ;the cheeks, pectus, sides of the thorax, 

 le^s on the outside, and abdomen with dirty fuscous-white pubescence, 

 which on the abdomen forms somevvhist thin but broad transverse 

 bands on the apical margins of segments '2 — 5, the inside of the legs, 

 especially the inside of the posterior metatarsi, clothed with dense black 

 pubescence ; wings hyaline, nervures and tegulre brown. 



$. Length 10 ; ej-p. 20 mm. 



Hah. Simla. 



26. Anthophora antiope, sp. nov. 



9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and closoly punctured, pubes- 

 cent ; clypeus convex, subporrect, anteriorly roundly emarginate, front 

 below the ocelli depressed, a conspicuous medial vertical carina from 

 the anterior ocellus to the apex of the clypeus; anal segment of the 

 abdomen raised and Hat above, compressed at the sides. Black, the 

 pubescenoe on the front, the sides of tho thorax, the median 



