2g^ n. rKu«)!!., zo^ 



ciliatis; pedes fusce ferruginei, supra cinerco-villosi, tibiis subtus nigro-, tarsis vero subtus fusce femigineo- 

 hirsutis; alae hyalinae, nervuris costaque fuscis. L. ?. 



Nubia." 



Anthophoi'a deltoides Buyss. 

 1897 Anthophom deltoides Buxs«on, S, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, p. 362. 



„$. Tres voisine des A. alUgena Lep. et talaris Perez comme taille, coloris et forme generale. Base 

 des mandibules, labre, clypeus, triangle inter-antennaire et scape jaunes; labre avec une Hgne mediane finement 

 pointillee, le bord apical epaissi, noir brillant et legerement releve; 2. article antennaire pas plus large qua long, 

 le 3. deux fois long comme le 4.; pas de poils noirs au Vertex; ni sur le dorsulum; ecaillettes et nervures des 

 alles testace-ferrugineux dans la moitie basale de l'aile; 2. cellule cubitale triangulaire, 7. segment abdominal 

 avec un petit angle obtus, distinct entre les deux pointes, 4 derniers articles des tarses femigineux, le i. article 

 garni en dehors de longs et epais poils blancs. L. 9V3 mm." 



Hebron (Transvaal). 



Anthophora clomicola Cockll. 

 1908 Anthophora domicola, ?, Cockerell, in: Entomologist, p. 121. 



?. Black, with hair of head and thorax above, apical margin of second abdominal segment and the 

 Segments foUowing entirely (except a few black hairs at base of 2. and 3.) rufo-f ulvoiis ; hairs of scutellum 

 (except at extreme sides anteriorly) of metathorax, of i. abdominal segment and of 2. except apical margin, 

 black or brown-black; hair of cheeks and pleura and anterior legs white, of middle and bind legs black. 

 Closely allied in all respects to A. atrocincta Lep., but smaller, with the wings palUd, suffused with brown along 

 the veins, the reddish hair not so bright and the lateral black areas of the clypeus indented below, the whole 

 shaped hke a boot with a sharp toe and a large heavy heel. The black areas of the clypeus are dull and 

 granulär, with rather sparse shallow punctures. The pygidial plate has dark hairs et its sides, but there is no 

 black patch on the 5. segment, such as there is in A. atrocincta (= plumipes F.). L. 13 mm. 



Benguela, Westafrika, im Januar 1908; from hole in side of mud house (Wellman leg.); Ekuiva 

 Valley, 1907 at flowers of mint, together with A. i-fasciata. 



Anthophora ektiivensis Cockll. 

 1908 Anthophora ekuivensis, Cockerell, $, in: Entomologist, p. 121. 



?. Superficially just Uke A. quadrifasciata, but evidently distinct, by the foUowing characters: mandibles 

 stouter, only the basal 3. or less yeUow; labrum with a central yellow lobiform area surrounded leg black, and 

 here rather elevated, median stripe of clypeus thorn-like, not reaching upper border ; no light supraclypeal mark, 

 tegulae more shining; bind basitarsus entirely covered with white hair on outer side; ventral segments with 

 long hair-fringes, which are fuscous in the middle and white laterally. The wings are dusky and subviolaceous. 

 L. 12 mm. 



Ekuiva Valley, Westafrika (Wellman 1907). 



Anthophora epichariforniis Grib. 

 1893 Anthophora epichariforniis Gribodo, ?, in: Bull. Soc. entom. Ital., Vol. XXV, p. 285. 



?. Media, nonnihil elongatiuscula, nigra; capite, pectore pedibusque duobus anticis nigro-villosis ; thoracis 

 dorso et lateribus, coxis, trochanteribus, pedibus 4 posticis extus, abdominisque segmento i. fulvo-villosis; pedibus 



