ANTHOPHORA. 527 



verse bands of bright metallic blue scale-like hairs; antennae black; 

 wings light fusco-hyaline, nervures and tegulae dark brown. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Pegu Hills, Burma ; Tenasserim ; Ceylon ; the 

 Malayan region to Australia. $ S • Length 14-15 ; exp. 25-26 mra. 



925. Anthophora zonata. (PI. IV, fig. 4.) 



Apis zonata, Linn. Si/st. Nat. (ed. 10) i, p. 576. 

 Anthophora subc;enilea, Lepel. Hym. ii, p. 30, J S • 

 Podalirius zonatus, Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 296. 



5 . Head and thorax densely, clypeus and the bases of the 

 abdominal segments thinly pubescent ; the head and thorax finely 

 and closely punctured under the pubescence, the bases broadly of 

 the abdominal segments finely aciculate. Black ; the labrum, base 

 of the mandibles, sides and apical margin of clypeus, with a narrow 

 medial line on the same, yellowish white ; the labrum with a lateral 

 spot and a line along its base black ; a small transverse triangular 

 spot above the base of the clypeus and the front of the scape of 

 the antenna pale yellowish white ; the front and vertex above the 

 base of the antennae, and the thorax above clothed with dull rufo- 

 fulvous pubescence mixed with black hairs and with the apex of 

 many of the other hairs black ; legs covered with a thin cinereous 

 pubescence ; the cheeks behind the eyes, the head and thorax 

 beneath, and the posterior tibiae above with snow-white pubescence, 

 the last with a short line of black hairs at base dividing the white; 

 the pubescence on the abdomen black, the apical margins of seg- 

 ments 1-4 with transverse bands of metallic blue scale-like hairs ; 

 wings nearly clear hyaline, sometimes with a fulvous tint, nerxoires 

 and tegulae testaceous. 



S similar ; the clypeus entirely yellowish white with two diver- 

 gent broad curved spots at base black. 



Var. The bands on the abdomen not shining metallic blue, but 

 dull and somewhat greyish. 



Hah. Throughout India, Burma, Tenasserim, and Ceylon, 

 extending through the Malay regions to Australia. $ 6 • LengtJi 

 11-13 ; exj). 21-25 mm. 



*926. Anthophora niveo-cincta, Smith, Cat. ii, p. 337,?. 



? Andrena fasciata, Fabr. Si/st. Ent, p. 377. 

 Podalirius niveocinctus, Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 279. 



" 5 . Length 5 lines (= about 11 mm.). — Black ; a triangular 

 spot above the clypeus, the clypeus, the face on each side, the 

 labrum and mandibles, and a spot on the scape in front yellow ; 

 the clypeus has on each side at base an elongate quadrate spot, 

 and its anterior margin narrowly black ; the labrum has a fuscous 

 spot on each side at base, the apex of the mandibles and the 

 flagellum ferruginous ; the pubescence on the face and che eks 

 white, on the vertex and disc of the thorax it is pale fulvous, the 

 tips of the hairs being black ; the pubescence on the sides of the 

 thorax beneath, and also on the metathorax, white; the legs ferru- 

 ginous above, densely covered with white pubescence, beneath it is 

 black. Abdomen, the margins of the segments have a fascia of 



