210 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Deseriptions and 
all the tarsi with dense white tomentum on outer side, and 
dark fuscous hair on inner. Abdomen shining, finely 
punctured, with tufts of pure white hair at extreme sides ; 
ventral scopa glistening white; no pulvilli. 
Krantz Kloof, Natal, 1.10.16 and 2.10.16 (Marley, 
1026). South African Museum. 
This nearly agrees with Cameron’s description of Anthi- 
dium melanosomum, from Grahamstown, but in his insect the 
apical slope of clypeus is said to be smooth and impunctate, 
» and the clypeus has fuscous hair. Unless Cameron’s 
description is erroneous, the species must be distinct. It is 
also very like A. /anipes, Friese, but that insect seems to have 
no dark hair on head or thorax. A. /anipes is recorded from 
“ Marienhof (Ukerewe Insel), Deutsch Ost-Afrika,”’ so one 
would expect it to be distinct. Possibly the three species 
are all races of one, but this cannot be definitely affirmed at 
present. 
Anthidium albolineatum, sp. n. 
2? .—Length about 7°5 mm., anterior wing 6 mm. 
Compact and robust, black, without light markings, 
except that abdominal segments 1 to 5 have very narrow 
white tegumentary bands ; sides of face, cheeks, and sides 
of thorax with abundant white hair; mandibles light ferru- 
ginous apically, but the teeth black ; clypeus simple, very 
densely punctured, elevated in middle; vertex and front 
dull and very densely punctured ; mesothorax and scutellum 
closely punctured, but glistening between the punctures ; 
margin of scutellum produced over metathorax, but not 
acute; hair of thorax above scanty and pale, with some 
brownish intermixed, but not easily seen ; vertex with long 
dark fuscous hair, contrasting with the shining white hair 
of occiput ; tegule shining piceous, with the margin white. 
Wings slightly dusky; b.n. going a short distance basad of 
t.-m.; second r.n. meeting outer t.-c., a little on the outer 
side. Legs with pale hair, dark rufous on inner side of 
tarsi; spurs creamy white. First ventral abdominal seg- 
ment marked with ferruginous; ventral scopa long and pure 
white ; abdomen above very thinly hairy, many of the hairs 
brown ; no pulvilli. 
Mfongosi, Zululand, April 1916 (W. #. Jones). South 
African Museum. 
On account of the black head and narrow abdominal 
bands, this resembles A. capense, Cam.=burerum, Brauns 
(both names published in 1905), but the scopa is quite 
differently coloured. 
