Hynuno'ptcra aculeata collected in Algeria. 2G9 



clothing of hair;^ very closely and finely punctured, surface of 

 abdomen invisible in fresh specimens, but in a rubbed one seen to 

 be very finely punctured, the apices of the segments narrowly white, 

 5th segment at the apex with a triangular patch of -brown hairs, 

 apical dorsal valve narrow and pointed, clothed at the sides with 

 long brown hairs, segments beneath and tarsi inwardly clothed with 

 brown hairs. 

 Long, 8. mm. 



$ 1. Biskra, on Echium humilc, 12, iv, 97. {A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. „ on the Sandhills, 5, v, 97. {A. E. E.) 



Closely allied to puhcsccus but the short 2nd joint of the 

 flagelluni and the pale labrum and mandibles will easily 

 distinguish it as well as the almost snowy-white pubescence. 



Anthophoha ferruginea, Lep., var. alhofcrrvginca, 

 Friese. 



^ 1. Constantine, visiting Fldomis hcrha-vcnti, " eyes 

 light-greyish or ashy-agate," 19, v, 

 95. (A. E. E.) 



Anthophora quadricolor, Er. 



^ 1. Le Tarf, 24-, vi, 96. {A. E. E.) 

 ^ 1. Pointe Pescade near Algiers, on Echivin, 10, v, 93. 

 {A. E. E.) 



Anthophora pubescens, F. 



^ $. Algiers, on the ramparts, on EcJiium, o, iv, 93. 



$ 3. Biskra, 17, iv, 94. (A. E. E.) 



$ 2. „ on Moricandia arvcnsis, 3, ii and 22, iv, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. „ on Devcrra scoj)cvvia, 14, ii, 95. {^A. E. E.) 

 $ 2. ., on Antirrhini'Mi ramosissimum, 26, ii, 97. 



{A. E. E.) 

 $ 3. Algiers, 14, iii, 98. {F. D. M.) 

 $ 1. Biskra, 6, v, 98. (F. D. M) 



Anthophora calcarata, Lep. 



^ 1. Bone, asleep, hanging on to a stem by its mandibles 



only, 17, xi, 93. {A. E. E.) 

 $ 1. Tunis, 20, xii, 93. {A. E. E.) \ 



