528 APID.E. 



white pubescence, the fifth is covered with the same, the apex 

 fuscous ; beneath the abdomen is ferruginous. 



" Hah. India (Smith)." 



Fabricius's A. fasciata so far as the description goes corresponds 

 ^^"ith the description of the above species, but I have failed to 

 identify either A. fasciata or A. niveo-cincta. 



927. Anthophora confusa, Smith, Cat. ii, p. 337, $ . 



? Antbophora vigilans, Smith, 2nd Yark. Miss., Hym. p. 6, S ('*sc 



Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1861, p. 92). 

 Podalirius coiifusus, Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 264. 



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

 head above and thorax densely pubescent. Black ; the base of the 

 mandibles, and the labrum, except a spot at each basal lateral angle, 

 pale yellowish ; clypeus black, a spot oil each side, a transverse 

 triangular spot above, and a medial comparatively broad line pale 

 yellowish white, the margin also narrowly white in some specimens; 

 pubescence on the vertex of the head and on the thorax above 

 cinereous, sometimes fulvous, mixed with black hairs, on the 

 cheeks and beneath and on the posterior femora behind white ; 

 legs with black pubescence, on the posterior tibitB above snow- 

 white, with an abbreviated black stripe at base ; abdomen covered 

 wath a thin black pubescence, the apical margins of the basal four 

 segments with fasciae of white pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline. 



d similar, smaller ; the clypeus with broader yellow markings ; 

 the 5th abdominal segment with a transverse pubescent fascia on 

 its apical margin. 



Hah. Barrackpore ; Sikhim ; Bombay ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 ? Ladak. $ . Length 13-15 ; exj^. 23-26 mm. d . Length 11-12 ; 

 ewp. 21-23 mm. 



928. Anthophora fallax. Smith, New Sp. Hpn. B. M. p. 120,$ S . 



Anthophora lucknovieusis, Rad. Wiadum. z nauk Przyrod. 1882, ii, 



p. 76. 

 Podalirius fallax, Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 267. 



2 . Head above on the vertex and the clypeus somewhat sparsely 

 and finely punctured ; the front, thorax, and transverse bauds on 

 the abdomen densely pubescent, the bases of the abdominal seg- 

 ments finely transversely aciculate. Black ; the mandibles at base, 

 labrum, and clypeus pale yellow, the last with two large contiguous 

 quadrate maculae at base ; the front, the vertex, and thorax above 

 with black-tipped ochraceous, very often griseous pubescence, that 

 on the face below the antennae, on the cheeks, and on the thorax 

 beneath whitish ; legs with griseous pubescence on the outside, 

 black on the inside ; abdominal segments 1-4 with a transverse 

 pubescent white fascia on the apical margin, apical two segments 

 with black pubescence ; wings subhyaline, nervures brown, tegulse 

 testaceous. 



d" similar ; the front of the scape of the antennae yellow ; the 

 pubescence on the thorax darker ochraceous ; abdominal segments 

 1-6 with transverse pubescent white fasciae. 



Hah. Western India ; Allahabad ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Ceylon. 



