328 HYMENOPTERA. 



basal segments of the abdomen and the posterior tibiae above, 

 clothed with a cinereous ])ubescence, more or less tinged with 

 ochraceous ; that on the tibiae has a silvery effulgence in certain 

 lights; on the vertex, sides of the head, and the entire insect 

 beneath it is black ; the legs a,re dark rufo-piceous ; the wings 

 subh valine, their apical margins faintly clouded ; on the apical 

 margin of the second segment is a narrow fringe of white pubes- 

 cence ; the third and apical segments have a thin black pubes- 

 cence; the abdomen rufo-piceous beneath. 



Male. — Clothed more densely than the female, but similarly 

 coloured ; the scape in front, the clypeus and labrum yellow, the 

 clypeus has two rounded black maculae at the base ; its anterior 

 margin and two spots on the labrum black; the thorax and 

 cheeks have a cinereous pubescence; the anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora have a fringe of that colour ; the intermediate 

 legs elongate, their tibiaj have a long fringe of white pubescence 

 behind; the basal joint of their tarsi fringed in front with short, 

 and behind with long black pubescence, the second, third and 

 fourth joints pale testaceous. 



Hab. Sicily. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



41. Anthophora Hispanica. B.M. 



Apis hispanica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 318. 1/ ^ • 

 Megilla hispanica, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 328. 1. 

 Anthophora hispanica, St. Farg. Hyn.. ii. 55. 29. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 146. 11. 



Eversm. Ball. Mosc. xxv. 108. 3? 



Hab. Spain; Algeria (Oran). 



42. Anthophora canifrons. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black, the clypeus has a narrow, 

 abbreviated, yellow line in the centre, touching the anterior mar- 

 gin ; the face has a cinereous pubescence, the tips of the hairs 

 black. Thorax densely clothed with a short obscure dirty yellow 

 pubescence ; on the sides and on the metathorax it is nearly 

 white; legs dark rufo-piceous, the pubescence beneath black; 

 above, the pubescence is of a yellow cinereous ; the basal joint of 

 the intermediate and posterior tarsi have a black pubescence in 

 front, posteriorly it is pale ochraceous. Abdomen rufo-i:)iceous 

 beneath ; above, the apical margins of the segments have a very 

 narrow white marginal fascia, which is continued beneath ; the 

 third and fom*th fascia? are fuscous in the middle. 



Hab. Canary Islands. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



