207 '-*'^ Bienen Afrikas nach dem Stande unserer heutigen Kenntnisse. 280 



Anthophora ruficatiMs Cam. 

 1905 Podalirius rußcaudis Cameron, ?, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 253. 



?. Black, hair 011 the vertex, upper part of thorax and of abdomen griseous, tinged with fulvous and 

 tipped with black, on the face and sides of thorax white ; the apices of the segments with paler bands, segment 5 

 and the sides of the last covered with long rufous hair; hair on the legs white, rufous behind; wings hyaline, 

 slightly tinged with violaceous, the nervures black. L. 12 — 13 mm. 



Clypeus and labrum closely, rugosel}^ punctured, the former with a keel down the central half ; mandibles 

 entirely black, base with elongated, irregulär punctures, vertex and front shagreened, ocellar region smooth and 

 shining, a furrow leads down from the ocelli; hair on the thorax is long and dense; there is a smooth, bare, 

 shining furrow in the centre of the metanotum; pygidium bare; ventral scopa tinged with rufous at the apex. 

 On the end of the penultimate Joint of the hind tarsi is a tuft of bright red hair. 



J is similarly haired, except that the bands of paler hair on the apices of the segments are paler and 

 more distinctly defined; the clypeus, labrum, a narrow line on the lower part of the face above the clypeus 

 united to a large mark on the inner orbits which is triangularly incised above, a narrow line on the under side 

 of the antennal scape and the basal half of the mandibles, yellow. The ventral segments are testaceous, narrowly 

 yellow on the apex; the apices of the apical three slightly incised. 



Allied to P. coccina Kl. (? = concinna Klg.) and fallax Sm. Col. Bingham informs me that the species 

 is not in the British Museum Collection. 



Transvaal. 



Anthoiihora rufipes Lep. 



1841 Anthophora rufij^es Lepeletieb, $, in: Hist. nat. Insect. Hymen., T. II, p. 50. 

 1869 „ „ DouES, cf$, in: Monogr. icon. Anthophora, p. 79. 



?. Nigra, labro (puncto utrinque baseos et basi ipsa nigricantibus), clypeo (macula utrinque magna sub- 

 quadrata baseos margineque infero nigris), genis, maculaque supra clypeum triangulari et mandibularum basi 

 albidis; capitis vertice thoracisque dorso rufo pilis intermixtis nigris, subtus albo-hirsutis. Abdominis supra seg- 

 mentis, i. basi rufo, medio nigro-hirsutis, 2. — 4. basi nigro parcius hirta, pilis in 3. — 4. paucis intermixtis stratis 

 albidis ; horum 4 margine infero pilis stratis pallide rufis fasciato, 5. basi nigro-hirta, pilis intermixtis stratis albis, 

 margine infero et ani lateribus pilis nigro-ferrugineis vestitis, segmentis subtus in lateribus albo, in medio femi- 

 gineo cihatis. Pedes 4 antici albido-hirsuti, tibiis tarsisque subtus ferrugineo-villosis ; postici duo femoribus albido- 

 hirsutis, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineo-hirsutis, postice eilbo-ciliatis ; alae vix fuscescentes, nervuris costaque nigris. 

 L. ? mm. Nach DOURS = L. 8 mm. 



Caffraria. 



d — dessous du i. article des antennes jaune; face immaculee; extremite des mandibules ferrugineuse ; 

 poils de la face et du corselet en dessus et en dessous roux; segment i herisse de poils roux abondants, 2. — 5. 

 segments ayant des poils roux courts meles de noirs, 6. entierement roux. Base de tous les segments portant 

 nne bände de poils roux plus large sur les derniers; anus roux, muni de 2 epines; poils des pattes en dessus 

 oux-blanchätres, ferrugineux-dore en dessous. 



Abessinia. 



Nach DoURS = Ä. rufa Savign., Lep. var. 



