214 HYMENOPTERA. 



Hab. — " Maziwa Mitatu and Maungu, March 14 and April 

 4, 1897," British East Africa (C. S. Betton). British Museum. 



Aiithidium clmbuti sp. nov. 



9. Length about 13 mm., anterior wing 9, width of abdomen a 

 little over 5 mm. ; black, with the antennae, tegulse, apices of femora 

 (greater part of upper side of anterior ones), tibias and tarsi all bright 

 red, these red parts with red hair, and also a tuft of red hair below 

 anterior end of tegulae ; pubescence otherwise black, except on vertex, 

 mesothorax and scutellum, where it is pale tawny (some black along 

 hind margin of the rather projecting scutellum): the long red hair of 

 scape contrasts curiously with the black of face ; mandibles black with 

 a red subapical spot, apical tooth large, inner teeth smaller and alike, 

 five in number ; no light face-markings, but vertex behind the ocelli 

 with a cream-colored band, broad in the middle, tapering at either 

 end ; thorax without light markings ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 densely punctured ; anterior wings with the basal half orange, with 

 orange nervures, the apical half yellowish dusky, the outer nervures 

 dark fuscous ; second r. n. meeting second t. c. ; no pulvillus ; end of 

 abdomen with a sharp tooth on each side ; first five segments each 

 with a pair of cream-colored marks, those on the first two elongated, 

 and quite lateral, the others becoming shorter and rounded and closer 

 together, the last pair separated by an interval less than the diameter 

 of either ; ventral scopa black. 



Hab. — V. del Lago Blanco (misprinted Xanco on label), 

 Patagonia {Ckubut). British Museum. Closely related to 

 A. steloides Spinola, from Santiago, Chile, but considerably 

 larger and more robust, and differing in details of coloration. 

 Another close ally is A. rubripes Friese, from the Argentine, 

 but this is narrower and otherwise different. Brethes (1909) 

 has transferred A. rubripes to Dianthidium, but from the de- 

 scription it is evidently near A. steloides and chubuti, and 

 Jorgensen gives an account of the nest, which shows that it 

 cannot be a Dianthidium. 

 Anthidium fiavipes Morawitz. 



This species was described from Central Asia. A male in 

 the British Museum is from Perim Island, in the Straits of 

 Bab-el-Mandeb. I have never seen authentic A. flavipes, but 

 the Perim Island specimen agrees so closely with the de- 

 scription that it is impossible to separate it. It differs in 

 being a little larger, fully 9 mm. long. The second r, n. goes 

 well beyond the apex of second submarginal cell, and from 



