236 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Anthophora niveocincta, Smith. 



This species was described by Smith from a specimen in the 

 Baly collection, and consequently the type is not in the British 

 Museum. Bingham quotes the original description, adding that 

 he has not recognized the species. Smith merely cited " India " 

 as the locality, but Dours describes both sexes from Pondichery, 

 and places the insect as a variety (subspecies) of A. alhigena. 

 Mr. E. Comber has obtained both sexes in some numbers at 

 Karachi, N.W. India ; also a female at Hyderabad, and a male 

 (October, 1909) at Lyallpur. Dours cites A. calcns, Lepeletier, 

 described from Africa, as the same species, but this is certainly 

 not correct. Friese states that he does not know calens, but I 

 have one from F. Smith's collection which seems to be correctly 

 named, though the marginal hair-bands on the first three abdo- 

 minal segments are fulvous, on the following two dull white. 

 This, however, is a male, whereas Lepeletier describes a female, 

 readily accounting for the difference. The insect is of course 

 quite close to niveocincta, yet evidently distinct. A. niveocincta 

 is the Indian (tropical) representative of A. alhigena, or more 

 especially of the closely related species or race, A. savignyi, 

 Lepeletier. The female niveocincta, compared with alhigena, 

 differs thus : flagellum chestnut-red beneath ; scape usually with 

 a yellow mark ; labrum longer in proportion to its breadth ; 

 face-markings strongly yellow, median band of clypeus broader ; 

 fifth abdominal segment with more white hair. Nurse reports 

 true alhigena from Quetta. A. ruficornis, Sichel in Dours, sup- 

 posed to be a variety of A. niveocincta, is doubtless a distinct 

 species, known by its entirely red antennae in the female. 



Anthophora camelorum, n. n. 



Anthojihora ruficornis, Fedtschenko, Turkest. Apid. i. p. 35, 

 1875. (Not Sichel in Dours, 1869.) Visits Alhagi camelorum, 

 Fischer. 



Anthophora alhigena quadrata, new subspecies. 



(? . Length about 9 mm. ; differing from A. niveocincta as follows : 

 face-markings creamy-white (as in alhigena) ; labrum comparatively 

 broad and short (as in alhigena) ; flagellum black ; hair of head and 

 thorax above very pale ochreous, strongly mixed with black, pro- 

 ducing a dull grey effect ; abdominal hair-bands thinner. This is 

 almost the same as alhigena, but the clypeus has a pair of large 

 quadrate black patches, emarginate below, their inner sides con- 

 verging, but not closely approaching, above. The hind basitarsus is 

 black-haired, with a tuft of white at base. End of abdomen bidentate. 



Hah., Nasik, N.W. India (E. Comber). British Museum. 

 P. salvia;, Morawitz, is similar but larger, with the scape all 

 black, whereas in our insect it carries a large cuneiform white 

 mark. The face-markings of salvicB are yellow, more in the 

 manner of niveocincta. 



