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Abdomen shining, finely punctured, the base more strongly so, 

 pubescent ; on the a})ical margin of the fourth segment on each 

 side is a patch of white pubescence. 



Hah. North America. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



101. Anthophora sponsa. — B.M. 



Female. Length 6| lines. — Black, the pubescence of the 

 head black, the clypeus covered with large deep punctures, sub- 

 carinate in the centre ; the labrum rugose. Thorax clothed 

 above and on the sides with ochraceous pubescence ; the wings 

 subhyaline ; the nervures black, the second submarginal cell 

 narrowed towards the marginal and receiving the first recurrent 

 nervure in the middle ; the legs fusco-ferruginous, their pubes- 

 cence entirely black ; the basal segment of the abdomen covered 

 with ochraceous pubescence, the following segments with black ; 

 beneath obscurely fusco-ferruginous ; the apical half of the seg- 

 ments strongly punctured. 



This species may very possibly prove to be the other sex of 

 Say's A. ahrupta. 



Hob. United States. 



102. Anthophora frontata. 



Anthophora frontata, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 409. 2 ^ . 

 Hab. North America (Louisiana). 



103. Anthophora taurea. B.M. 

 Anthophora taurea. Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 410. 3 J $ . 

 Hab. North America (Indiana). 



104. Anthophora marginata. B.M. 



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

 covered with grey pubescence, the anterior margin of the clypeus 

 and the labrum coarsely rugose ; the wings subhyaline ; the 

 thorax beneath and the femora have a long cinereous pubescence ; 

 the tibise and tarsi above have a pale ochraceous or dirty-white 

 pubescence, the tarsi beneath have dark ferruginous pubescence, 

 the apical joints ferruginous. Abdomen, a little cinereous pu- 

 bescence at the base, the apical margins of the segments yellow- 

 ish-white, naked. 



Hab. Mexico. 



105. Anthophora Floridana.I^'-^'^K^V B.M. 

 Female. Length 6 hnes. — Black, the pubescence on the head 



