68 EGYPTIAN AND 



by a slight transverse ferruginous ridge. Mouth ferruginous. Eyes 

 red. Antennfe red beneath. Abdomen with a broad band of white 

 pubescence along the hind border of each dorsal segment. Hind 

 tibiae beneath and hind tarsi with black hairs, the former with bright 

 ochraceous hairs above. Wings cinereous; veins black. Var. p. — 

 Hind tibiae with yellowish white hairs above. Length of the body 

 5 lines. 



Harkeko. Wady Hebran. 



287. Anthophoba inclyta. Female. — Black, clothed with bright 

 ochraceous hairs. Head beneath with cinereous hairs ; face and 

 clypeus not hairy ; fore border of the face forming a transverse ridge. 

 Eyes piceous. Mouth tawny. Legs with hairs like those of the 

 body in colour; hind tibiae and hind tarsi very densely pilose. 

 Wings cinereous ; veins black. Var. /3. — Pectus with cinereous 

 hairs. Length of the body 7^ — 8 lines. 



Most allied to A. pennata, but is larger and brighter and has 

 darker wings. 



Rafla. Wady Ferran. Mount Sinai. 



288. Anthophora superans. Female. — Vertex, thorax, pectus 

 and base of the abdomen thickly clothed with pale ochraceous hairs. 

 Head excepting the vertex white and without hairs. Eyes and 

 mouth ferruginous. First joint of the antennae white beneath. 

 Abdomen with three bands of pale ochraceous pubescence on the 

 hind borders of the segments. Legs fringed with cinereous hairs ; 

 tibiae and tarsi clothed with cinereous pubescence ; tarsi with 

 ochraceous hairs beneath. Wings slightly cinereous ; veins black. 

 Length of the body 7^ lines. 



Mount Sinai. 



Genus XYLOCOPA, Latr. 



289. XvLocoPA ^ESTUANs. Apis aestuans, Lhw. Syst. Nat. i. 

 9C1. 



Cairo. Heliopolis. Harkeko. Wady Genneh. 



Inhabits Hindostan. 



290. Xylocopa olivacea. Apis olivacea, Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 

 319. 



Hor Taraauib. 



