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3. LiTHURGUS ANALIS, 



Litliurgus analis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 347. 6. 

 Hab. France. 



4. LiTHURGUS FU.SCIPENNIS. 



Lithurgus fuscipennis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 347. 5. 

 Hab. Fi-ance. 



5. LiTHURGUS H^MORRHOIDALIS. 



Lithurgus haemorrhoidalis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 346. 4. 

 Hab. Sicily. 



6. LiTHURGUS UMBRACULATUS. B.M. 



Lithurgus uinbraculatus, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 345. 2. 

 Hab. ? 



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7. LiTHURGUS ATRATUS, U. S. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, the sides of the face and 

 front of the clypeus covered with silvery-white pubescence, an- 

 tenna; beneath from the fourth joint to the apex testaceous ; 

 below the antennse is an elevation, truncated at its inferior mar- 

 gin, which is rounded. Thorax, the disk anteriorly coarsely ru- 

 gose, wings fusco-hyaline and having a slight piu'ple iridescence ; 

 at the sides of the metathorax are tufts of white pubescence. 

 Abdomen flat, shining and finely punctured, the margins of the 

 segments have a narrow fascia of white pubescence, which is 

 continued beneath ; the apical segment covered with black pu- 

 bescence ; the pollen-brush is thin, and of a brownish black. 



Of four specimens in the Collection only one retains the mar- 

 ginal fascia above, but all have them beneath, where it is not so 

 liable to be rubbed off. 

 Hab. India. 



8. LiTHURGUS RUFIPES, U. S. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Black, the head broad, depressed, 

 the face as high as the anterior stemma, covered with white pu- 

 bescence ; the clypeus naked, shining and coarsely punctured ; 

 manchbles ferruginous, black towards their base ; the cheeks and 

 thorax beneath thinly covered with griseous pubescence ; legs 

 ferruginous ; the tegula; pale ferruginous, wings subhyaline ; a 

 narrow fuscous cloud extends from the stigma to the apex of the 

 wings ; the nervures fuscous ; a line of short white jnibescence 

 crosses the thorax from wing to wing, traversing the margin of 



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