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posterior pair yellowish white ; wings and abdomen nearly as in 

 the female ; the two central rows of spots are ovate in four speci- 

 mens examined, and the spot on the fifth segment, in one example, 

 is united to the lateral spot by a narrow line ; the sixth segment 

 has a sharp spine at its lateral angles ; the seventh segment is 

 broadly emarginate at its apex, its lateral angles forming blunt 

 spines ; in the middle is a longitudinal carina which projects 

 beyond the emargination, thus making the segment tridentate. 



Hah. Bombay Presidency. 



9, Anthidium laclir3rinGsiini. 



Female. Length 31-4 lines. — Black, closely punctured, the abdomen 

 shining, and with white pubescent spots. Head as wide as the 

 thorax ; the sides of the face with short snow-white pubescence, as 

 well as the cheeks. Thorax with a large patch of white pubescence 

 beneath the wings, and a small one on the mesothorax anteriorly, 

 the latter freijuently obliterated ; the anterior wings dark fuscous, 

 with a hyaline spot at the apex of the submarginal cells ; the pos- 

 terior wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apex ; the scutellum 

 more strongly punctured than the mesothorax, its posterior margin 

 straight. The first segment of the abdomen with a large patch of 

 white pubescence at the lateral margins, and the four following 

 ones with smaller spots. 



Mah. Closely resembles the female, but has the angles of the apical 

 margins of the third, fourth, and fifth segments produced laterally 

 into short acute teeth ; apical segment with three teeth. 



Hah. Bombay district. 



10. Anthidium multiplicatum. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Head and thorax reddish yellow, with black 

 markings ; abdomen black, with yellow fasciae. Head with two 

 triangular black maculae on the vertex, placed transversely ; also a 

 black macula above the insertion of each antenna, extending to the 

 anterior ocellus ; the labrum black ; the mandibles very broadly 

 dilated, and widened at their apex ; the apical margin emarginate, 

 with a black blunt process at the lower angle of the emargina- 

 tion ; the upper angle forms a flattened truncated process ; the cly- 

 peus porrect, rounded at the apex and concave beneath. The 

 mesothorax with three broad longitudinal black stripes, the central 

 one extending from the base to the apex, the lateral ones not run- 

 ning to the anterior margin ; wings subhyaline, the anterior margin 

 of the fore wings dark fiiscous. The segments of the abdomen with 

 slightly interrupted yellow fascite, the first only entire. The insect 

 entirely yellow beneath. 



Hah. Brazil, St. Baulo, 



