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an uninterrupted line along the margin of the vertex, an ovate 

 spot a little below the insertion of the antennaj, the scape and 

 four or five basal joints of the llagellum ferruginous. Thorax, 

 the margin ferruginous, interrupted only on the collar and 

 on the posterior margin of the scutellum; the nervures to- 

 wards the base of the wings, the tubercles and legs ferruginous ; 

 the wings dark fuscous. The basal segment of the abdomen 

 ferruginous, having an ovate yellow macula laterally, its pos- 

 terior margin narrowly black ; the second segment has on each 

 side a curved stripe nearly uniting in the middle, the stripes are 

 tinged with ferruginous, the two following segments have on 

 each side a subquacbate macula similarly coloured, the two apical 

 segments black ; the ventral scopa yellowish white. 



Male. — This sex closely resembles the female, but differs in 

 having the clypeus yellow as well as a spot above and the 

 mandibles also"^ yellow exteriorly. The abdomen has two ad- 

 ditional spots on the fifth segment", and all the spots are emar- 

 ginate at their outer margins, the sixth segment is sub-bituber- 

 .culate on its apical margin, the seventh is somewhat produced 

 and rounded, and has a slight central carina, its apical margin 

 as well as the extreme lateral margins of all the segments yellow. 



Hab. Georgia. 



89. Anthidium curvatum. B.M. 

 Female. Length 4 lines.— Black, the clypeus yellow, having 



a broad black stripe down the middle, the inner orbits of the 

 eyes nearly to their vertex broarlly yellow, a minute yellow spot 

 before the anterior stemma and a transverse yellow line on the 

 vertex continued nearly half-way down the outer margins of the 

 eyes. The collar, tubercles and posterior margin of the scutellum 

 yellow, the former shghtly interrupted ; the tubercles and legs 

 yellow, the latter varied with ferruginous, the femora being fusco- 

 ferruginous towards their base ; the wings smoky, darkest towards 

 their anterior margin. The basal segment of the abdomen has 

 a transverse band, deeply emarginate laterally, the three following 

 segments have on each side an oblong stripe curved downwards 

 and pointed at their extremity within ; the curved form being 

 given by a deep notch in the middle of each stripe beneath ; the 

 fifth segment has two central obhque stripes, the sixth immacu- 

 late. \ 

 Hab. Georgia. 



90. Anthidium dorsale. 



Anthidium dorsale, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 384. 31. 

 Hab. North America (Georgia). 



