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macula on each segment laterally ; the apical segment being 

 entirely yellow, and having a central black dot. 



Bob. The Gambia. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



72. Anthidium villosulum. 



Male. Length 5^ hnes. — Black, the face as high as the stem- 

 mata and the cheeks densely covered with short pale yellow 

 pubescence, the anterior margin of the clypeus fringed with the 

 same, on the clypeus it is very sparing ; the scape of the antennae 

 in front, the clypeus, sides of the face adjoining, a minute spot 

 above the eyes and the mandibles yellow, the latter armed with 

 three stout black teeth at their apex. The thorax on the sides 

 and beneath, the tibia; behind and all the tarsi above densely 

 clothed with yellov\ish-white pubescence; the femora beneath, and 

 the tarsi ferruginous ; the anterior and intermediate tibise above 

 and the posterior pair at the base yellow, the whole having a 

 short scattered glittering pubescence ; the disk of the thorax 

 covered with short ochraceous pubescence, the scutellum rounded 

 behind and slightly emarginate in the middle ; a minute spot on 

 each side of the collar, and a very narrow line on the posterior 

 margin of the scutellum, yellow ; the wings subhyaline, their 

 nervures black, except towards the insertion of the wings, where 

 the}', as well as the tegulse, are rufo-testaceous, the latter yellow 

 at their anterior margins. The abdomen has four rows of small 

 ovate yellow spots, the two outer rows touching the lateral mar- 

 gins ; the sixth segment has only two central spots, from which 

 an oblique line passes oiF to the lateral margins ; the fifth and 

 sixth segments are armed at their margins with a ciu-ved spine, 

 the first pair yellow ; the apical segment has two stout curved 

 black spines; beneath, the apex ferruginous, and the lateral mar- 

 gins having a dense fringe of pale pubescence. 



Hob. Africa. (The Gambia.) 



73. Anthidium coloratum. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. — Black, the face and cheeks clothed 

 with long white pubescence, the vertex with fulvous ; antenna;, 

 legs and tegula; pale ferruginous ; a small white spot on the 

 vertex Ijehind the eyes. The thorax beneath and metathorax 

 covered with white pubescence, on the disk with fulvous ; the 

 wings slightly ferruginous towards their base. Abdomen, the 

 basal margins of the segments have on each side an elongate 

 white stn])e emarginate posteriorly, the stri|)es ou the fifth seg- 

 ment ahnost uniting ; the sixth segment has on each side a 

 minute tooth ; the ventral scopa golden-yellow. 



Male. 3i lines. — Very closely resembling the female, differing 



