336 hymenoptera. 



88. Anthophora cingulata. B.M. 



Andrena cingulata, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 314. 30. 

 • Megilla cingulata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 332. 18, and Mus. Dom. 



Banks. 

 Megilla cincta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. \^. 330. 9,\ar. ? ,Mus. Dom. Banks. 

 Anthophora cingulata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 46. 20. 



Hab. Australia. 



89. Anthophora ^ruginosa. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines.— Black, the head and thorax densely 

 covered with short green pubescence, varying in the tint in 

 different individuals ; the clypeus, labrum, mandibles, and a tri- 

 angular spot above the clypeus, yellow ; the clypeus has on each 

 side at the base a quadrate black spot, which is emarginate at 

 its inferior side ; the labrum has two fuscous dots at the base, 

 and the tips of the mandibles are fusco-ferruginous, the flagellum 

 fulvous beneath. Thorax, the wings hyaline, the nervures fus- 

 cous, the tegulae pale testaceous ; legs rufo-piceous ; beneath, 

 their pubescence is black ; the pubescence of the tarsi black, 

 the intermediate and posterior pairs having a little green at theii- 

 base above ; the posterior tibiae have a line of black pubescence 

 at their base above. Abdomen rufo-piceous beneath ; above, 

 the extreme apex covered with black pubescence. 



Male. — Closely resembling the other sex, but having the scape 

 yellow in front ; the cheeks and anterior femora beneath have a 

 long dense white pubescence ; the intermediate tibiae and tarsi 

 are fringed with long black pubescence in front, and with white 

 behind ; the posterior tarsi have a dense black pubescence ] 

 otherwise as in the female. 



Hab. Australia (Hunter River). 



90. Anthophora zonata. B.M. 



Apis zonata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 955. 19. 

 Andrena zonata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 311. 19. 

 Megilla zonata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 331. 13. 

 Anthophora zonata, Si. Farg. Hym. ii. 25. 1. 



Hab. India; Ceylon; Philippine Islands ; Hong Kong; North 

 China. 



91. Anthophora subc^rulea. 



Anthophora subcserulea, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 30. 4 c? $ . 

 Hab. India (Bengal). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



