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yellowish hair, aiid scutellum with longer yellow hair ; 

 scutellum projecting, rounded; thin-edged, emarginate but 

 not dentate ; axilke obtusely but evidently angled ; lower 

 part of occiput and opposing part of prothorax black, 

 the latter with a large round yellow spot on each side ; 

 middle of metathorax blackened ; tegulre yellow, with a large 

 pale ferruginous spot and hyaline margin. Wings hyaline, 

 broadly infuscated apically, and with a dark streak in 

 marginal cell; stigma red with a dark margin; nervures 

 piceous ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; second r. n. going well beyond 

 end of second s.ra. Legs bright yellow without markings, 

 the small joints of tarsi becoming reddish ; pulvillus rudi- 

 mentary. Abdomen yellow, with the hind margins of the 

 segments pale ferruginous, and a narrow longitudinal black 

 or partly reddish line or band running down the middle of 

 the first three or four segments. 



Hab. Karachi, N.W. India {E. Comber). British Museum. 



This belongs to the bellicosuin- gvou\) of Dianthidium, and 

 is aberrant for the genus, approaching Proanthidiuni. It 

 nearly agrees with the description of Anthidium saltator, 

 Nurse, from Deesa, but differs by the broadly darkened 

 apical margins of the wings and the absence of dark markings 

 on the legs. It is just possible that it is only a race of 

 saltator. Structurally, there is much resemblance to 

 A. subochraceum, Walker. 



Dia7ithidium rasorium (Smith). 

 A7)th{dinni rasorium, Smith, 1875. India. 



Proanthidium soliferum, sp. n. 



? , — Length about or not quite 7 mm. 



Black, marked with pale yellow ; head and thorax densely 

 punctured ; abdomen shining, Avith the punctures w^eJl 

 separated ; ventral scopa pure white ; mandibles quadri- 

 dentate, yellow, with the teeth black, and the subapical 

 corner broadly red ; clypeus high, differing from that of 

 oblongatum in the concave lateral outlines ; clypeus, lateral 

 face-marks covering lateral areas up to a little above 

 antennal sockets, and broad low^r border of supraclypeal 

 area sending a band upwards on each side and a little tooth 

 in middle, all yellow ; front entirely black ; a broad yellow 

 band almost entirely covering cheeks and continuous across 

 top of head ; antenn,Te black, the apical margin of the scape 

 narrowly dark red, and the flagellum obscurely reddish 



