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beneath ; tubercles yellow, sharply keeled ; mesothorax 

 with broad yellow lateral bands, pointed behind, and ex- 

 tending along the anterior margin for some distance, their 

 ends here abruptly truncate ; scutellum projecting, broad 

 and short, almost straight-edged, emargiuate in middle, not 

 toothed, the sides occupied by a pair of" large triangular 

 yellow patches, the axillae, which are not toothed or angled, 

 also yellow; pleura with white hair ; tegulre bright ferrugi- 

 nous, with a yellow spot in front. Legs bright ferruginous, 

 with the following parts pale yellow : lower side of anterior 

 femora, posterior side of middle femora, subapical spot on 

 hind femora, and outer side of all the tibiae. Wings dusky, 

 darker in marginal cell and apical field ; b. n. going far 

 basad of t.-m. ; second r. n. going well l)eyond end of second 

 s.ra. Abdomen with five broad pale yellow bands, broadly 

 interruptt'd on first three segments, more narrowly on 

 fourth, not quite completely on fifth; last two segments 

 entirely black. No pulvilli. 



$ . — Similar, l)ut yellow markings brighter, those of head 

 stained with reddish ; mandibles tridentate ; lower margin 

 of clypeus fringed with white hair; front with a large in- 

 verted-cup-shaped yellow patch ; posterior edge of scutellum 

 very straight, and emargination not evident ; pleura with a 

 small jelloAv spot. Wings very dark ; legs nearly all yellow, 

 reddish basally, hind femora marked with black behind ; 

 end of abflomen very simple, without lateral teeth, the 

 apex broadly shallowly emarginate, the lobes subangulate, 

 the structure not unlike that of Anthidium alpinum, 

 Mora wit z, 



liab. N.W. India {E. Comber). British Museum. Type 

 ( $ ) from Karachi ; male from " Shpali.'" 



The male of P. soliferum nearly agrees with the description 

 of female Anthidium flavomaculutum, Cam., from Poona, but 

 it is larger, with darker wings, and must, I think, be 

 different, even if the supposed female .//a?;omacM/a/Mw should 

 prove to be really a male, 



Anthidium fries ei, n. n. 



Anthidiirmjlavomaculatum, Friese, Apidtc von Ar^eutina, 1908, p. 70. 

 Aigeutiiiy llepublic. (Not A.Jlavoiuaculatam, Cameron, 18U7.J 



Anthidium ternarium, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about IH mm. 



Black with bright chrome-yellow markings ; face narrow. 



