496 APIDiE. 



interrupted in the middle, the apex of the femora beneath, the 

 tibiae above (in the fore legs. the tarsi above also), and broad trans- 

 verse lateral spots on abdominal segments 1-5, bright yellow; the 

 head, thorax, and abdomen with a sparse glittering pale pubescence ; 

 the pollen-brush white ; wings hyaline, fuscous along the costal 

 margin. 



Hah. Tenasserim. $ . Length 8 ; exp. 16 mm. S unknown. 



879. Anthidium rasorium, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 50, $ J; 

 Dall. Ton: Cat. x, p. 4(39. 

 Anthidium rulipes, Smith {nee Fab}'.), New Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 85. 



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

 clypeus slightly convex, anteriorly rounded, and densely pubescent; 

 scutellum broadly lunate, almost subtriangular, notched in the 

 middle posteriorly ; abdomen convex, strongly curved. Black, 

 covered all over with a soft white down, the clypeus and front 

 with dense white pubescence; the legs and abdomen beneath 

 ferruginous ; the clypeus, face as high as the base of the antennae, 

 a spot on the mandibles, and a line ou the cheeks continued along 

 the margin of the vertex, white ; a line on each side of the meso- 

 notum near the tegulae, joining a line along the posterior margin of 

 the scutellum, and a fascia across the middle of each segment 

 yellow, the fascia on the 1st segment reduced to a lateral spot, on 

 the 2nd widely, on the others narrowly interrupted in the middle ; 

 basal joint of posterior tarsi white ; wings hyaline and iridescent. 



S similar, but the markings all paler, those on the abdomen 

 forming an entire transverse band on the 1st, narrowly interrupted 

 bands on the 2nd-5th segments, and a lunate spot in the middle of 

 the 6th segment ; the 7th segment very broad, transverse apically 

 and tridentate. 



Hah. Bengal; Central Provinces; Bombay; Bangalore ; Burma; 

 Tenasserim. $ . Length 7 ; exp. 13 mm. c? . Length 8 ; exp. 14 mm. 



Genus STELIS. 

 Stelis, Panz. Krit. Eevis. Faun. Deutschl. ii, p. 246 (1806). 



Tvpe, S. aterrima, Panz. 



Range. Both hemispheres. 



Head convex anteriorly, transverse posteriorly, cheeks mode- 

 rately well developed ; ocelli in 

 a triangle on vertex ; antennae 

 filiform, geniculated ; labial palpi 

 4-jointed, basal two joints the 

 longest, the 1st about two-thirds 

 the length of the 2nd, the 3rd 

 and 4th minute ; maxillary palpi 

 2-jointed, both joints minute. 

 Thorax subglobose, the scutellum 



^ ,„, ^, ,. , o -i moreor less produced backwards; 



Fi2. 164. — Stclis cornuta, Y.. i. c ■ -ii .i Tin 



^ ^ ^ tore wmg with the radial cell at 



apes not approximate to the costal margin; two cubital cells, subequal 



