HYMENOPTERA. 



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86. Anthophora basalis. B.M. 



Female. Length 7i lines.— Black, the head densely clothed 

 with a short black pubescence, the apex of the clypeus naked, 

 obliquely truncate and roughly punctured, the labrura pubescent 

 and the mandibles ciliated with black hairs beneath, their tips 

 pale testaceous ; the thorax above and the first segment of the 

 abdomen densely clothed with a rich fulvous pubescence ; the 

 legs entirely black ; the wings fuscous, their nervures black, the 

 tegulae pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen, the fifth and apical 

 segment covered with black pubescence, and having a little 

 pale pubescence laterally ; beneath, obscurely rufo-piceous, 

 the third, fourth and fifth segments having on each side a pale 

 fringe. 



Hab. South Africa. (Coll. Dr. A. Smith.) 



87. Anthophora pulchra. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, the clypeus, a triangular 

 shape above, the face on each side, the labrum, a spot on the 

 scape in front, and the mandibles, yellowish-white ; an elongate 

 stripe on each side of the clypeus, its anterior margin and two 

 minute dots at the base of the labrum black, the tips of the 

 mandibles ferruginous ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; the face 

 has a griseous pubescence, on the vertex it is ochraceous. Tho- 

 rax, the disk clothed with fulvo-ochraceous pubescence, paler on 

 the sides, and beneath of a bluish-white, in some individuals it 

 has a greenish tinge ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures fuscous ; 

 the legs rufo-piceous and having a little black pubescence be- 

 neath; the tibiae and the basal joint of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tarsi clothed with white pubescence, which has usually 

 more or less of a yellow tinge, sometimes it is tinged with blue 

 or green ; the basal joint of the posterior tarsi has usually a patch 

 of pale pubescence at the base, but it is frequently black. Ab- 

 domen, the apical margins of the four basal segments have fasciae 

 of bluish-white pubescence, the fifth segment has a little white 

 pubescence on each side, the sixth is dark rufo-piceous, and has 

 some fuscous pubescence on each side. 



Var. a. having an oblique quadrate spot on each side of the 

 clypeus, its anterior margin ferruginous, the spots on the labrum 

 obsolete. 



Male. — Closely resembles the female, but has only a narrow 

 black line on each side of the clypeus ; in other respects as in the 

 other sex. 



Hab. Austraha (Cape Upstart ; MoretonBay; Hunter River). 



