342 HYMENOPTERA. 



blackish pubescence ; the wings fiisco-hyahne, their nervures 

 black ; the tegulge rufo-piceous, the pubescence of the legs 

 black. Abdomen smooth and shining, at the base a little cine- 

 reous pubescence, the apical margins of the second, third and 

 fourth segments have a narrow fascia of white pubescence, the 

 apex fuscous. 



Hab. Brazil (Para ; Santarem). 



116. Anthophora albifrons. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black, the head densely clothed 

 with long hoary pubescence ; the mandibles ferruginous at their 

 base and apex, pale yellow in the middle. Thorax densely 

 clothed above with short ferruginous pubescence ; the wings sub- 

 hyaline, their nervures black ; on the thorax beneath, coxae and 

 femora is a long white pubescence; legs fusco-ferruginous, clothed 

 above with a pale glittering pubescence. Abdomen, the basal 

 segment clothed above with ferruginous pubescence, the margins 

 of the three following segments have a fascia of yellowish-white 

 pubescence, between the fasciae the pubescence is black. 



Hah. South America. 



117- Anthophora tecta. 



Female. Length 6i lines. — Head and thorax black, the cly- 

 peus having a broad T-shaped white mark on the clypeus, its 

 anterior margin ferruginous, the labrvim yellowish-white, the 

 margin broadly ferruginous, the mandibles ferruginous ; the 

 sides of the face covered with dense short white pubescence, the 

 sides of the head and the cheeks densely covered with long 

 white pubescence, on the vertex it is fulvous. Thorax clothed 

 above with fulvous pubescence, on the middle it is fuscous, on 

 the sides the fulvous colouring graduates into white, the femora 

 fringed with yellowish-white pubescence; the legs rufo-testa- 

 ceous, the legs above have a cinereous pubescence, th^ posterior 

 tibiae and the basal joint of the tarsi densely clothed above with 

 white pubescence, the calcaria black. Abdomen fusco-aeneous, 

 the basal segment clothed with fulvous pubescence, on the 

 second and third segm.ents the pubescence is very sparing and 

 black, the fourth and fifth densely clothed with very short 

 griseous pubescence, the pubescence at the apex of the latter 

 segment fuscous ; the margins of the segments pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; beneath rufo-testaceous, the margins of the segments 

 thinly fringed with long pale pubescence, the fifth ciliated with 

 short fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil? (Coll. F. Smith.) 



