492 apidjE. 



b. Colours black and yellow. 



a'. Abdomen with a series of four yellow 

 spots placed transversely across the seg- 

 ments. 

 (fi. Basal and apical segments wdth only 



two yellow spots A. imitator, p. 493. 



b'. Basal segment -with, four yellow spots. 

 a^. Apical segment with two yellow 



spots A. ardens, p. 494. 



b^. Apical segment immaculate A. ordinatum, p. 494. 



b' . Abdomen with transverse yellow fascipe, 

 more or less medially interrupted, or 

 elongate lateral yellow spots. 

 a^. Posterior tibiae and tarsi broadly di- 

 lated A. latipes, p. 495. 



h'^. Posterior tibias and tarsi not dilated. 



a^. Head and thorax immaculate A. /ratermtm, p. 49o. 



b^. Head and thorax variegated with 

 yellow. 

 «*. Basal two abdominal segments 

 with widely interrupted broad 

 transverse yellow fasciae ; re- 

 maining segments with broad 



lateral yellow spots A. orientale, p. 495. 



6^. All the abdominal segments with 

 more or less narrowly interrupted 

 narnno transverse yellow fasciae . . A. rasorium, p. 496. 



870. Anthidium lachrymosum, Smith, Neiv Sp. Hpn. B. M. p. 87, 



5 S ; Uall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 463. 



5 . Head and thorax closely, coarsely, and strongly, the base 

 of the abdominal segments broadly, more finely, and lightly 

 punctured ; clypeus very slightly convex, transverse anteriorly ; 

 scutellum very broad, somewhat wedge-shaped, its posterior margin 

 trausvei'se ; abdomen broadly conical. Black ; the sides of the 

 face, the cheeks, a spot on the mesonotum anteriorly, a patch 

 under the wings, and lateral spots on abdominal segments 1-5 

 covered with dense, the legs with a thin white pubescence ; fore 

 Ming dark fuscous, with a hyaline spot beyond the 2nd discoidal 

 cell ; hind wing hyaline. 



S very similar ; abdominal segments 3-5 with lateral teeth, the 

 6th segment with three apical teeth. 



Hah. Malabar ; Bombay ; Tenasserim. 5 S • Length 5-8 ; 

 evp. 14-17 mm. 



871. Anthidium flavomaculatum, Cain. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc 



xH, 18U7. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and closely punctured, 

 the pronotum and the apical margins of the abdominal segments 

 narrowly smooth and impunctate ; the scutellum large, broad, 

 transverse posteriorly. Black ; the clypeus, sides of the face 

 below the bases of the antennae broadly, a large spot on the front, 

 a broad line on the cheeks meeting on the vertex above, the 



