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278. Anthophora bimaculifera. Female. — Piceous. Head 

 clothed with whitish hairs and on the vertex with luteous hairs ; face 

 testaceous, with a large subquadrate piceous spot on each side ; clypeus 

 3'ello\v. Antennae red beneath. Thorax thickly clothed with ochra- 

 ceous pubescence. Pectus with white pubescence. Abdomen with 

 thin cinereous pubescence ; a testaceous slightly gilded band on the 

 hind border of each segment; under side and legs red. Fore legs 

 with whitish hairs ; four posterior legs with ochraceous hairs, their 

 tarsi with brown hairs. Wings cinereous ; veins black, tawny at the 

 base. Length of the body 6 lines. 



Harkeko. 



279. Anthophora Melaleuca. Female. — Black. Head, thorax, 

 pectus and legs thickly clothed with snow-white hairs. Eyes reddish. 

 First joint of the antennae whitish beneath. Abdomen with snow- 

 white pubescence and with four deep black bands, which from the first 

 to the fourth are successively narrower. Legs clothed with black 

 hairs beneath. Wings pellucid ; veins black, testaceous at the base. 

 Length of the body A\ lines. 



Cairo. 



280. Anthophora lutescens. Female. — Black, clothed with 

 luteous hairs. Hind part of the head with cinereous tomentum. 

 Face and clypeus yellow. Eyes lurid. Antennae piceous, red beneath ; 

 first joint piceous, whitish beneath. Pectus with hoary hairs. 

 Abdomen with a testaceous band along the hind border of each 

 segment. Four posterior tibiae densely pilose. Wings cinereous ; 

 veins black, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 4 lines. 



Wady Ferran. 



281. Anthophora cana. Male. — Black. Head, thorax, pectus 

 and legs thickly clothed with snow-white hairs. Face and clypeus 

 pale testaceous. Eyes red. Antennae piceous beneath ; first joint 

 yellow beneath. Abdomen with white pubescence ; hind borders of 

 the segments pale yellowish, this hue nearly hidden by the down. 

 Legs clothed with black hairs beneath. Wings pellucid ; veins 

 testaceous, black towards the tips. Female. < — Face and clypeus pale 

 yellow. Antennae reddish ; first joint piceous. Length of the body 

 4 — 4^^ lines. 



Massowah. Harkeko. 



