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64. Anthidium scapulare. 



Anthidium scapulare, Latr.Ann.Mus, H. N. xiii. 227- 19.pl. I. f. 8. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 379. 25. 

 Hab. Algeria. 



65. Anthidium abdominals. B.M. 



Thynnus abdominalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 245. 3 ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 231. 3. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



66. Anthidium africanum. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, the clypeus and a triangular 

 spot above, the sides of the face and a slender line along the 

 inner orbits of the eyes above the insertion of the antennae, not 

 reaching their vertex, a short narrow stripe in front of the anterior 

 stemma, and the mandibles exteriorly yellow. Thorax, a minute 

 spot in front on the tegular, and the margin of the scutelkim, 

 narrowly, yellow ; the latter very broad and produced half-way 

 over the basal segment of the abdomen ; the wings dark fuscous 

 and having a purple tinge ; the legs and abdomen ferruginous, 

 the latter armed at the apex with three teeth, the central tooth 

 stout and rounded at the apex, the lateral ones curved inwards 

 and acute. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. (The Rev. D. Morgan.) 



This species is very probably the male of A. bicolor ; the insect 

 which I have considered to be St. Fargeau's species merely diifers 

 slightly in the coloration of the clypeus. 



67- Anthidium cordatum. B.M. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. — Black, strongly and closely punc- 

 tured; a minute spot on the front a little below the anterior 

 stemma ; a narrow line down the inner margin of the eyes, a 

 similar one on the margin of the vertex, the clypeus and face on 

 each side as high as the insertion of the antennae, and a spot at 

 the base of the mandi])les yellow. Thorax, a spot on the tuber- 

 cles, another on the tegulae, an epaulet over the tegulae, a spot 

 at each of the lateral angles of the scutellum and the legs yellow ; 

 the legs roughly punctured ; the wings fusco-hyahne, their apical 

 margins darkest. Abdomen cordate, the sides fulvo -testaceous, 

 each segment having an elongate ovate yellow macula, the sixth 

 segment entirely fulvo-testaceous, and having on each side a 

 yellow macula ; beneath fulvo-testaceous, the basal margins of 

 the segments fuscous. 

 Hab. Port Natal. 



