ANTHOPHORA. 529 



Beyond India in Southern and Western Africa. $ ^ . Length 

 8-10 ; ex^. 17-21 mm. 



929. Anthophora insularis, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1858, p. 48, 5 . 

 PodaliriuH insularis, Dall. Ton: Cat. x, p. 273. 



2 . Head at the back, the cheeks, thorax, and abdomen densely 

 pubescent, the pubescence lonpf and erect on the thorax, short, 

 scale-like, and pilose on the abdomen ; the front and vertex of the 

 head ■with a sparse covering of longish hairs, finely punctured 

 beneath it ; clypeus medially carinate. Black ; the labrum except 

 a narrow border all round, a J.-shaped mark on the clypeus, a 

 transverse triangular spot above it, and the scape of the antennae in 

 front pale yellow ; pubescence rich ferruginous, mixed with griseous 

 and black on the head and thorax, the cheeks and the thorax 

 beneath with white, and the posterior tibiae and intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi with jet-black pubescence : antennae piceous ; the 

 bases of abdominal segments 2-4 and all the 5th and 6th black ; 

 wings flavo-hyaline, fuscescent towards the apical margins. 



ITah. Burma ; Tenasserim ; Ceylon ; Borneo, spreading down 

 the Malay region. 5 . Length 16-17; exp. 30 mm. c? unknown. 



930. Anthophora quadrifasciata. 



Apis quadrifasciata, Til/ers, Linn. E7it. iii, p. 319. 

 Centris nidulans, Fabr. Si/st. Piez. p. 357. 

 Podalirius quadrifasciatus, Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 284. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen more or less densely pubescent ; 

 the labrum, clypeus, front of the head, and the bases of the abdo- 

 minal segments finely and closely punctured, the punctures shallow. 

 Black ; the head and front with cinereous, the thorax above and the 

 outside of the posterior tibiae with fulvous pubescence, paler on 

 the tibiae ; the inside of the legs, the base of the basal four abdo- 

 minal segments, and the whole of the 5th and 6th segments 

 clothed with thin black pubescence, the apical margins of segments 

 1-4 broadly with pale fulvous-white pubescence ; the labrum, the 

 clypeus, and a transverse triangular spot above the latter pale 

 yellowish white ; a minute spot at each lateral basal angle of the 

 labrum, and two large subquadrate contiguous spots at the base of 

 the clypeus black ; wings pale fusco-hyaline. 



c? similar ; a whitish pubescent fascia on the 5th abdominal 

 segment. 



This is the common Indian form, but the species is very variable 

 and the pubescence on the thorax may be any shade from fulvous 

 to grey-blue, and the fasciae on the abdominal segments are some- 

 times fulvous. 



Bah. Spread from Central and Southern Europe, through Africa 

 to India, Burma, and Ceylon. 5 <S . Length 10-12 ; exp. 19-22 mm. 



931. Anthophora fraterna, n. sp. 



(S . Head on the vertex somewhat coarsely, the thorax and 



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