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HYMENOPTEBA. 



2. Habrophora ezonata. B.M. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black, the face has a cinereous 

 pubescence thinly scattered over the clypeus, but dense on each 

 side of the face, that on the vertex is black, the labrum has a 

 dense tuft of white j)ubescence, and the cheeks a dense beard of 

 the same colour. The thorax and basal segment of the abdomen 

 above, densely clothed with fulvo-ochraceous pubescence ; the 

 anterior femora have a long thick fringe which is formed by a 

 mixture of pale and dark fuscous pubescence, the intermediate 

 and posterior femora are fringed with fuscous pubescence, and 

 above the legs have a short pubescence of the same colour, except 

 the scopa on the posterior tibiae, which is glittering yellowish- 

 white. Abdomen ; the second and third segments have a very 

 short black pubescence, on the fourth it is silvery-white, very 

 short and having some long white hairs intermixed, its apical 

 margin has a dense white fringe ; the sides of the following seg- 

 ment are similarly adorned, in the middle it is fuscous, as it is 

 also on the apical segment. 



Male. — Closely resembles the female, but the clypeus and a 

 transverse line above, the face on each side, the scape in front 

 and the basal half of the mandibles yellow ; the apical half of the 

 latter ferruginous ; the anterior coxae armed with an elongate 

 filiform spine, obtuse at its apex and having a brush-like tuft of 

 white hair at the extremity : these spines as well as the legs are 

 ferruginous; the thorax beneath, the coxae and trochanters covered 

 with long white pubescence ; the tibiae and tarsi have a white 

 pubescence above, the posterior femora having some long fuscous 

 pubescence within ; the basal joint of the ])osterior tarsi broadly 

 dilated, angulated beneath, convex exteriorly, concave within. 

 The pubescence of the abdomen longer, but coloured as in the 

 female, the apical segment fringed with short black hairs. 



Hab. Albania. 



Note. — The name Habrophora, as I have lately ascertained, 

 having been ])reoccupied by Erichson in Coleoptera, Habropoda 

 must be substituted. 



Genus 51. ANTHOPHORA. 



Apis, pt., Linn. Sysf. Nat. 953 (1766). 



Podalirius, Latr. (olim) Hist. Nat. Cr. et Ins. iii. p. 378 (1802) 

 (Saropoda, Anthophora, Centris). 



Anthophora, Latr. Hist. Nat. Cr. et Ins. xiv. 45. (1804) (Saro- 

 poda). 



Megilla, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 328 (1804). 



Lasius, pt., Jur. Hym. (1807). 



