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Antliojthora atHfvo'ns Sm. 



1854 Anthopliora atrifrons Smith, 5, in: Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Vol. II, p. 333. 

 1869 „ „ DouKs, ?, in: Monogr. icon. Anthophora, p. 132. 



$. Black, head clothed with black pubescence, on the vertex is a little fulvous pubescencc; tliorax and 

 abdomen above clothed with bright fulvous pubescence; on the disk of the thorax between the wings, not 

 reaching the tegulac, is a rounded patch of black pubescence, there is also a little in the middle of the 2 basal 

 Segments, the entire pubescence of the legs and of the body beneath is black ; towards the apex of the abdomen 

 the pubescence is paler than the rest; wings of a smoky hyaline. L. 6 lines (= 1272 nim;. 



Kap. 



AntJi02)hora angolensis D. T. 



1881 Anthophora atriceps Radoszkowski, S, in: Journ. Acad. Sc. Math. etc. Lisboa, T. VIII, p. 198 (nee PtuEz). 

 1896 Podalirius angolensis Dalla Torrb, in: Cat. Hym., Vol. X, p. 266. 



S. Nigra; capite thoraceque fulvescento-hirtis , abdominis segmentis 3. — 6. albo-fasciatis ; ahs fumato- 

 violaceis. L. 18 mm. 



Noir; chaperon noir sans tache; tete couvcrte de poils jaunes clairs, ceux de la face sont presque blancs. 

 Thorax couvert de poils fauve-ferrugineux. Segment i. a sa base garni de poils fauves, le reste nu, sur le bord 

 des 3. — 6. Segments larges bandes de poils blancs, courts et couches, l'anus noir. Pattes anterieures garnies de 

 poils blanchätres; ailes enfumees avec faibles reflets violaces. 



Angola (Welwitsch). 



Anthophot'a aetliiopica Cam. 

 1905 Podalirius aethiopica Cambron, cf, in: Rec. Albany Mus., Vol. I, p. 199. 



cS. Black, a stripe below the antennae, rounded above, transverse below, a similar obUque one on the 

 sides of the face above; the rest of the face, except for an irregulär oblique mark bordering the lateral oblique 

 mark, dilated broadly above and with an irregulär edge, the lower edge of the upper dilated part triangularly 

 dilated downwards, the labrum, except for a narrow line on the top and sides, and the mandibles except at the 

 apex, pale yellow; temples and cheeks thickly covered with long white hair, the hair on the front and vertex 

 fuscous. Hair on upper part of thorax pale fulvous, on pleurae soot-coloured, on breast white; on back of 

 abdomen white, with the apex of the segments piceous, on neutral surface black. The hair on the upper side 

 of the forelegs white on the tibiae and tarsi, on the rest black or soot-coloured, on the 4 posterior black ; wings 

 clear hyaUne, nervures and Stigma black. L. 14 mm. 



Clypeus strongly but not closely punctured, a smooth, flat keel on the upper VsJ labrum similarly 

 punctured, centre of the mandibles with some elongated punctures; tegulae piceous. 



Kapland — Martindale. 



Anthophora cincvascens Lep. 

 1841 Anthophora cinerascens, Lei'eletieu, $, in: Eist. nat. Insect. Hymen., T. II, p. 51. 



„?. Nigra, labro (puncto utrinque baseos fornigineo) clypeoquc (macula utrinque parva subquadrata 

 margineque infero nigris) albidis; capite thoraceque cinereo-viUosis ; abdominis supra segmentis, i. cinereo-hirto 

 2. — 3. pilis stratis cinereis vestitis, horum trium margine infero pilis albidis tenuiter fasciato; 4.-5. nigro-hirtis, 

 lateribus albido-ciliatis, 5. margine infero et ani lateribus fusce ferrugineo vestitis, segmentis subtus albido- 



