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64. Anthidium scapulare. 



Anthidium scapulare, Latr.Ann.Mus. H. N. xiii. 227- 19.pl. l.f.8. 

 St. Farg. Hym. ii. 379. 25, 



Hah. Algeria. 



65. Anthidium abdominale. B.M. 



Thynnus abdominalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 245. 3 ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 231.3. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



66. Anthidium africanum. B.M. 

 Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, the clypeus and a triangular 



spot above, the sides of the face and a slender line along the 

 inner orbits of the eyes above the insertion of the antennae, not 

 reaching their vertex, a short narrow stripe in front of the anterior 

 stemma, and the mandibles exteriorly yellow. Thorax, a minute 

 spot in front on the tegulaj, and the margin of the scutellum, 

 narrowly, yellow ; the latter very broad and produced half-way 

 over the basal segment of the abdomen ; the wings dark fuscous 

 and having a purple tinge ; the legs and abdomen fen'uginous, 

 the latter armed at the apex with three teeth, the central tooth 

 stout and rounded at the apex, the lateral ones cm-ved inwards 

 and acute. 

 Hab. Sien-a Leone. (The Rev. D. Morgan.) 



This species is very probably the male of A . bicolor ; the insect 

 which I have considered to be St. Fargeau's species merely differs 

 slightly in the coloration of the clypeus. 



67. Anthidium cordatum. B.M. 

 Female. Length 3| lines. — Black, strongly and closely punc- 

 tured ; a minute spot on the front a little below the anterior 

 stemma ; a narrow line down the inner margin of the eyes, a 

 similar one on the margin of the vertex, the clypeus and face on 

 each side as high as the insertion of the antennae, and a spot at 

 the base of the mandibles yellow. Thorax, a spot on the tuber- 

 cles, another on the tegulac, an epaulet over the tegulae, a spot 

 at each of the lateral angles of the scutellum and the legs yellow ; 

 the legs roughly punctiu-ed ; the wings fusco-hyaline, their apical 

 margins darkest. Abdomen cordate, the sides fulvo-testaceous, 

 each segment having an elongate ovate yellow macula, the sixth 

 segment entirely fulvo-testaceous, and having on each side a 

 yellow macula; beneath fulvo-testaceous, the basal margins of 

 the segments fuscous. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



