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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.98 
  

  

  and 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  dull; 
  tegulae 
  dark 
  brown; 
  wings 
  faintly 
  dusky, 
  

   nervures 
  dark; 
  legs 
  with 
  grayish 
  hair, 
  a 
  bright 
  white 
  patch 
  on 
  apical 
  

   part 
  of 
  middle 
  tibiae 
  posteriorly; 
  abdomen 
  broad, 
  dull, 
  with 
  very 
  

   distinct 
  white 
  tegumentary 
  bands 
  on 
  tergites 
  1 
  to 
  4. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano 
  (A. 
  Pelen). 
  

  

  Type.—V.S.NM. 
  No. 
  58876. 
  

  

  Distinguished 
  from 
  related 
  Honduras 
  species 
  by 
  the 
  entirely 
  black 
  

   tegument 
  of 
  face. 
  It 
  is 
  perhaps 
  related 
  to 
  A. 
  zamoranella, 
  known 
  from 
  

   the 
  male 
  only, 
  

  

  ANTHOPHORA 
  BISPINOSA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  10 
  mm.; 
  black, 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  with 
  dull 
  

   white 
  hair, 
  without 
  any 
  fulvous 
  tint; 
  eyes 
  greenish; 
  apical 
  half 
  of 
  

   clypeus 
  (or 
  a 
  little 
  more) 
  light 
  yellow, 
  glistening; 
  scape 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  

   light 
  yellow 
  stripe 
  in 
  front, 
  flagellum 
  black; 
  labrum 
  light 
  yellowish, 
  

   with 
  two 
  round 
  black 
  spots 
  at 
  base; 
  mandibles 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  light 
  yellow 
  

   mark; 
  sides 
  of 
  labrum 
  with 
  much 
  pure 
  white 
  hair; 
  mesonotum 
  and 
  

   scutellum 
  dull, 
  no 
  line 
  of 
  white 
  hair 
  between 
  them; 
  front 
  edge 
  of 
  

   scutellum 
  shining; 
  tegulae 
  black; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  slightly 
  dusky; 
  legs 
  

   black, 
  with 
  white 
  hair; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  and 
  basitarsi 
  with 
  black 
  hair 
  on 
  

   inner 
  side, 
  and 
  pure 
  white 
  on 
  outer; 
  abdomen 
  broad, 
  the 
  first 
  five 
  

   tergites 
  with 
  white 
  hair 
  bands, 
  the 
  first 
  narrow, 
  the 
  others 
  broader; 
  

   apical 
  plate 
  long 
  and 
  narrow; 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  apex 
  is 
  a 
  rather 
  small 
  

   stout 
  spine. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  San 
  Francisco 
  finca, 
  Zamorano 
  Valley, 
  November 
  10 
  

   (Cockerell) 
  (type); 
  October 
  30 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell). 
  

  

  Guatemala: 
  Antigua, 
  December 
  (A. 
  Pelen). 
  This 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  

   Honduras 
  specimens 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  upper 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  yellow 
  clypeal 
  

   band 
  distinctly 
  convex 
  in 
  outline. 
  

  

  Type.—V.S.'NM. 
  No. 
  58877. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CENTRIS 
  Fabricius 
  

  

  CENTRIS 
  (CYANOCENTRIS) 
  ADANI. 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  15 
  mm., 
  anterior 
  wing 
  11; 
  robust, 
  black 
  

   (including 
  legs), 
  but 
  the 
  first 
  three 
  abdominal 
  tergites 
  dark 
  blue; 
  hair 
  

   of 
  face, 
  occiput, 
  and 
  thorax 
  light 
  red, 
  but 
  of 
  venter 
  black; 
  supraclypeal 
  

   area 
  with 
  a 
  dense 
  transverse 
  band 
  of 
  light 
  hair; 
  sides 
  of 
  face 
  with 
  white 
  

   band, 
  greatly 
  broadened 
  and 
  pointed 
  mesad 
  in 
  middle; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  a 
  

   reversed 
  T 
  in 
  white, 
  the 
  lateral 
  arms 
  long 
  and 
  concave 
  above; 
  labrum 
  

   and 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  mandibles 
  light; 
  antennae 
  black; 
  tegulae 
  light 
  

   red; 
  wings 
  rather 
  dilute 
  fuliginous; 
  front 
  tibiae 
  with 
  long 
  glistening 
  

   white 
  hair 
  behind; 
  middle 
  tibiae 
  with 
  gray 
  hair 
  on 
  outer 
  side, 
  their 
  

   basitarsi 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  brush 
  of 
  intensely 
  black 
  hair; 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  hind 
  

   tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  with 
  copious 
  pale 
  reddish 
  hairs; 
  last 
  three 
  tergites 
  of 
  

   abdomen, 
  and 
  margin 
  of 
  third, 
  covered 
  with 
  pale 
  reddish 
  tomentum; 
  

  

  