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1. Small, length of body and antennae each about 9 mm.; mandibles with a large 



yellow spot mitsukurii Cockerell. 



Larger, mandibles without a yellow subbasal spot 2. 



2. Hair of abdomen above all pale nipponensis Perez. 



ELair of abdomen black or fuscous on bases of segments beyond the second 



chinensis Smith. 



3. Bases of abdominal segments with black feltlike hair chinensis Smith. 



Bases of abdominal segments with brownish or reddish hair 4. 



4. Length 14-15 mm nipponensis Pe>ez. 



Length 10f-ll£ mm mitsukurii Cockerell. 



Since the above was written, Friese has published two new species 

 from Japan, T. okinawx and T. japonica. There is some resemblance 

 between T. okinawse and T. mitsukurii, but the latter is smaller and 

 evidently distinct. T. olcinawse does not come from Japan proper, 

 but from the Riu Kiu Islands. T. japonica is recorded from " Jaku- 

 shima, Siidjapan," but this is evidently Yaku Shima, in the Riu Kiu 

 group. 



Genus ANTHOPHORA. 



I have included in my account of the Asiatic species in the National 

 Museum a small series of Asiatic forms from the Berlin Museum. 



ANTHOPHORA SAVIGNYI Lepeletier. 



Three females in the Berlin Museum, collected by Ehrenberg in 

 Syria and the Arabian Desert. In Friese's tables they run to A. albi- 

 gena Lepeletier, but they have the stature and general appearance of 

 A. circulata Fabricius from Willowmore, S. Africa (Brauns). I am 

 satisfied that they are separable from albigena, circulata, quadri- 

 fasciata, etc., but they agree excellently with the description of A. 

 savignyi Lepeletier, based on a specimen from Egypt of unknown 

 history. The only difference I can find is that the hair of the legs is 

 in the main pale, not black; should this prove constant in a series, 

 it may indicate a separable subspecies. The fulvous hair of the head 

 and thorax above is strongly mixed with fuscous, a point overlooked 

 by Lepeletier. The insect is distinguished from A. quadrifasciata by 

 the evident pale lateral face-marks (formed as in albigena) and the 

 large patch of white^ hair on the outer side of the hind basitarsus. 

 One of the Arabian specimens is paler than the others, the hair of 

 the thorax being colored as in A. confusa. Dours thought A. 

 savignyi was a variety of A. rufipes Lepeletier, a small (8 mm. long) 

 South African species. I can not believe that this is at all the case; 

 certainly, our insect is not a variety of rufipes. 



ANTHOPHORA ZONATA WHITEHEADI Cockerell. 



One male from the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, in the 

 Berlin Museum. It was obtained from Rolle. The male, now first 

 made known, differs from the female in the same manner as the rest 



