4:1.0 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



A. montana, Cresson, &c, though not so conspicuously 

 developed. 



Bab. Port Darwin, Australia, Nov. 1902 (Turner). Type 

 in British Museum. 



Anthophora cingulifera, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 14 mm. 



Robust, black, the hair of head and thorax above mixed 

 black and bluish white ; labrum (except two large basal spots 

 connected by a line and linear apical edge), basal half of 

 mandibles, reversed T on clypeus and lower lateral corners 

 broadly, very bread and low supraclypeal mark, lanceolate 

 lateral marks only touching orbits basally, and small mark 

 on scape in front, all yellowish white ; flagellum ferruginous 

 beneath ; tegulse dark reddish ; wings dusky ; abdomen 

 with four broad apical bands, shining brilliant blue. 



Bab. Dehra Dun, U. P., India, Nov. 1907 {Lt.-Col. F. 

 W. Thomso7i). 



I give only a brief description, as the species lias been 

 fully described by Bingham (Hymenop. British India, i. 

 p. 526) as A. cingulata (Fabr.). I have previously (Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1905, p. 397) called attention to the 

 tact that true (Australian) cingulata is a different species. 

 The type of the new species is in the British Museum. 



Anthophora vulpina icaltoiii, subsp. n. 



? . — Length 12-13 mm. 



Appearance and structure of A. mlpina, Panzer (specimen 

 from Nassau, F. Smith collection, compared), but paler with- 

 out any evident yellowish tint, the apex of abdomen with 

 pale hair like the rest, except the middle of the fifth segment, 

 where it is dark reddish brown. Hair of head and thorax 

 long, dull white mixed with black above, white below ; 

 clypeus, labrum, and mandibles black ; labrum quadrate, 

 coarsely sculptured, strongly shining; clypeus well punctured, 

 with a median raised line; tongue with well-developed spatu- 

 late hairs; antennae entirely black, joints measuring in /x on 

 under side : (3) 730, (4) 220, (5) 240, (6) 255 ; tegulae very 

 dark reddish brown. Wings dusky hyaline ; first r. n. joining 

 second s.m. beyond middle ; b. n. little bent at base. 

 Hair of legs dull white, pale reddish on inner side of tarsi, 

 brush at end of hind basitarsus fuscous ; spurs yellowish 

 white ; hind margins of abdominal segments narrowly 

 hyaline, the second to fourth with broad shaggy bands of 



