404 "• Friese, 322 



Le (J a la plus grande partie des mesopleures et du mesosternum rougeätre lavee de jaune. 

 La $ que Le Peletier a decrite sous le nom d'A. bicolor, est beaucoup moins ornee de jaune, pourrait 

 etre d'une autre espece, ou celle-ci en serait une variete plus ornee." 



Anthidium, cordatum Sm. 



1854 Anthidium cordatum Smith, ?, in: Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Vol. II, p. 209. 

 1856 „ „ Smith, in: Trans. Entom. Soc. London, (2) Vol. III, Proc. p. 130. 



1858 „ „ GuEiNziDS, in: Trans. Entom. Soc. London, (2) Vol. V, Proc. p. 10. 



1904 „ „ EiiiESE, cf, in: Zeitschr. f. syst. Hym., Bd. IV, p. 105. 



$. Black, strongly and closely punctured, a minute spot on the front a little below the anterior stemma, 

 a narrow line down the inner margin of the eyes, a similar one on the margin of the Vertex, clypeus and face 

 on each side as high as the Insertion of the antennae and a spot at the base of the mandibles yellow. Thorax, 

 a spot on the tubercles, another on the tegulae, an epaulet over the tegulae, a spot at each of the lateral angles 

 of the scutellum and the legs yellow; legs roughly punctured; wings fusco-hyaline, their apical margins darkest. 

 Abdomen cordate, sides fulvo-testaceous, each segment having an elongate ovate yellow macula, 6. segment 

 entirely fulvo-testaceous and having on each side a yellow macula; beneath fulvo-testaceous, basal margins of 

 the Segments fuscous. L. 3V2 ünes (= 7V2 vnm). 



Port Natal. 



J wie das ?, aber Segment 6 jederseits gezahnt, 7 dreidornig, die seitlichen Dorne gebogen; Ventral- 

 segmente mit bürstenartiger Behaarung, 6 glatt, glänzend und mitten kielartig erhaben. Tibien III verbreitert. 

 L. 7V2 — 8V2 mm- 



? von Mossambique, 6 Delagoa-Bai; im Mus. Berlin 3 $ von Delagoa-Bai und Kapland (Krebs). 



Südafrika. 



Anthidium, apicatum. Sm. 



1879 Anthidium apicatum Smitii, $, in: Descr. new spec. Hymen., p. 84. 



?. Black, punctured, with the head and thorax immaculate, abdomen spotted with yellow. The head 

 and thorax closely and strongly punctured; the sides of the face, below the Insertion of the antennae, with pale 

 pubescence; the tarsi with pale fulvous pubescence above, and bright fulvous beneath; the scutellum produced 

 over the metathorax; wings subhyaline, their apical margins clouded. Abdomen with the first to fourth Seg- 

 ments with a small ovate spot at their extreme lateral margins; the fourth segment has an additional spot 

 within the extreme lateral one; the fifth and sixth segments entirely pale yellow; beneath densely clothed with 

 pale fulvous pubescence. L. 3V2 ünes (= 7V2 mm). 



Natal. 



Anthidium cucuUatiiin Friese. 

 1904 Anthidium cucullatum Friese, cJJ, in: Zeitschr. f. System. Hym., Bd. IV, p. 102. 



?. Nigrum, albo-hirtum, densissime ruguloso-punctatum ; clypeo, mandibulis antennarum scapo sanguineis ; 

 scutello latissimo, truncato, porrecto; segmentis i.— 5. utrinque sanguineo-maculatis, 2.- — 4. plerumque medio albo- 

 maculatis, scopa albida; pedibus sanguineis; alis fuscis. L. 6^/2 — 7 mm, lat. 4 mm. 



d ut ?, sed segmentis 5. et 6. utrinque dentatis, 7. trispinoso; ventre albo-hirto. L. 6 — 6V2 mm, lat. 3 mm. 



?. Schwarz, dünn weiß behaart, dicht und grob punktiert, stellenweise runzlig und matt; Clypeus, Man- 

 dibel, Antennenschaft und hinterer Kopfrand blutrot, hinterer Kopfrand kapuzenförmig verlängert, scharfkantig 



