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4 posticis intus penicilloque apicali tarsorum posticorum nigro-setosis; abdominis segmentis 2. et 3. maxima 

 parte ad basin, 4. ima basi nigro parce hirtis, pilis tenuibus brevissimis fere squamosis; segmento 2. margine 

 apicali fascia interrupta, 3. et 4. fascia marginali integra bisinuata, e tomento griseo subsquamoso ; segmento 5. 

 griseo hirto, et apice fulvo una cum pygidio fimbriato : labro crasse denseque, clypeo tenuiter et modice punctatis ; 

 antennarum articulo 3. longitudinem 4 sequentium subaequante; area pcltiformi epipygii opaca augusta, lineari, 

 plana, haud carinata nee sulcata, apice rotundata, marginibus nonnihil deflexis; alis apice subinfuscatis, basi hyalinis; 

 venis nigris. L. 16 — 17 mm. 



Rondebosch. 



Kapland. 



Anthojifiora fallax Sm. 



1879 Änthophora fallax Smith, J?, in: Descr. new spec. Hymen., p. 120. 

 1903 „ „ Vachal, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 377. 



?. Black; the head and thorax above with ochraceous pubescence tipped with black, that on the face, 

 cheeks, and on the thorax beneath whitish. The clypeus with the lateral and anterior margins and a narrow 

 line in the middle, a transverse line above the clypeus angulated in the middle, the labrum, and mandibles, pale 

 yellow ; the basal margin of the labrum black, the tips of the mandibles ferruginous; wings subhyjdine, the 

 nervures dark fuscous; the tegulae pale testaceous; the posterior tibiae with white pubescence above, beneath 

 with black, the calcaria black. Abdomen with short black pubescence, the apical margins of the first to fourth 

 Segments with narrow white pubescent fasciae; beneath they are margined with fulvous pubescence in the middle 

 and with white at the sides. L. 5 hnes (= 10V2 mm). 



d closely resembles the female, but has the scape of the antennae pale yellow in front. 



Natal, Sierra Leone. — Nach Vachal von Sierra Leone und vom Kongo. 



Vachal sagt : „L' J. fallax ? Sm., me parait etre une variete dont le noir du dessous des tibias 3 finit 

 par occuper le ^|^, la %, ou les Vi de la brosse, et dont les poils du Vertex deviennent d'un fauve roussätre pur. 



3 ? de Sierra Leone, Boma (Tschoffen) et Congo beige (Hoton) au Mus. de Bruxelles." 



"> = A. circulata F. 



BiNGHAM erwähnt 3 Exemplare (J?) von Pretoria (Südafrika). 



Änthophora nivea Lep. 

 1841 Antlioph&ra nivea Lepeletier, $, in: Eist. nat. Insect. Hymen., T. II, p. 52. 

 1869 ,, quadrifasciata var. m'wa Dours, $, in: Monogr. icon. Änthophora, p. 74 = ? incana Klg. 



9. Nigra, antennis subtus a 3. articulo ferrugineis, labro (puncto utrinque baseos fusco, parum distincto) 

 clypeoque et mandibularum basi lata älbis; capite thoraceque albo-villosis ; segmento i. albo-hirto, 2 — 4. pilis 

 stratis seu squamis albis vestitis, in horum 4 segmentorum margine infero densioribus, 5. lateribus pilis hirtis 

 squamisque intermixtis albido-hirsutis ; hujus dorso anique lateribus pUis nigro-subferrugineis vestitis; segmentis 

 subtus in lateribus albido-, in medio nigro-ferrugineo-ciliatis. 



Pedes fusce ferruginei, ferrugineo-hirsuti, supra, tarsis III exceptis, albo-villosi ; alae hyalinae, ncrvuris 

 costaque paUide rufis. L. ? mm. 



Senegal. 



Änthophora pallidicincta Cajl 

 1905 Podalirius pallidicinctus Cambron, J, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 254. 



d. Black; the lower part of the face, the part on the sides roundly incised above clypeus, except for a 

 curved black line along the upper half, the line narrowcd abo\'e and below; labrum yellow, a black mark on 



