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the tegulae. Abdomen with a lateral spot of pale pubescence on the 

 2nd and 3rd segments, and an entire apical band on the remaming 

 segments. 



<y . Head and thorax punctm-ed, densely clothed with bright 

 brown hau'S (when fresh) ; clypeus and labrum yellowish white. 

 Antennae very long, reaching to abont the 4th abdominal segment ; 

 joints slightly curved. Thorax with the hairs of the disk rather 

 darker than those of the sides beneath the wings ; wings slightly 

 clouded. Abdomen with the first two segments clothed with long 

 brown hairs, the rest with short black ones, but occasionally with 

 an apical band of pale hairs on each ; apical segment narrow and 

 truncate ; beneath punctured, apical margins of the segments 

 smooth and piceous ; 6th segment with an elevated line running 

 parallel to the margin on each side ; 7th with a black projecting, 

 somewhat quadrate tubercle at the apex on each side ; 8th shining, 

 its apex slightly emarginate, and with a few hairs on each side 

 (for genitalia, &c., see PL X., figs. 6 — 6 6). Legs clothed with pale 

 hairs ; calcaria pale. 



5 . Quite unlike the cT in general appearance, and something 

 like an Anthophora in shape. Head and thorax densely clothed 

 with brown hairs, paler on the face and below the wings ; labrum 

 and clypeus black ; mandibles piceous at the apex. Antennae 

 reaching to about the tegulse ; 3rd joint about as long as the 4th 

 and 5th together ; wings as in the ^ . Abdomen ovate, punctured ; 

 basal segment and base of 2nd clothed with erect pale brown hairs, 

 the rest of the 2nd and the 3rd with very short black ones, having a 

 lateral somewhat ti-iangular spot of pale hairs on each side ; 4th 

 segment densely clothed with velvety brown hairs at the base 

 (usually covered by the preceding segment), and with an apical 

 band of pale hairs ; 5th with an apical band of golden hairs ; 6th 

 with the central glabrous space transversely rugose ; beneath 

 clothed with pale hairs, becoming golden towards the apex. Legs 

 clothed with pale brown hairs, tarsi inwardly with golden brown 

 hairs. Length, 15 — 16 mm. 



Hah. Abundant in some places, and generally dis- 

 tributed. 



Anthophoea, Latr. 

 Latr., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ix., p. 167. 



"Wings with three submarginal cells ; labial palpi 4-jointed ; 

 maxillary palpi 6-jointed. Antennae of the $ scarcely longer than 

 those of the $ ; clypeus and labrum in the <? white ; posterior 

 metatarsi of the $ outwardly dilated, and the posterior tibias in 

 this sex with a dense pollen-brush. $ with six ventral segments 

 exposed; 7th subquadrate, with long posterior branches ; 8th short, 



