•320 hymenoptera. 



2. Habrophora ezonata. B.M. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black, the face has a cinereous 

 pubescence thinly scattered over the clypeus, but dense on each I 

 side of the face, that on the vertex is black, the labrum has a j 

 dense tuft of white pubescence, and the cheeks a dense beard of I 

 the same colour. The thorax and basal segment of the abdomen 

 above, densely clothed with fulvo-ochraceous pubescence ; the , 

 anterior femora have a long thick fringe which is formed by a i 

 mixture of pale and dark fuscous pubescence, the intermediate ■ 

 and posterior femora are fringed with fuscous pubescence, and i 

 above the legs have a short pubescence of the same colour, except ; 

 the scopa on the posterior tibiae, which is glittering yellowish- | 

 white. Abdomen ; the second and third segments have a very ', 

 short black pubescence, on the fourth it is silvery-white, very 

 short and having some long white hairs intermixed, its apical i 

 margin has a dense white fringe ; the sides of the following seg- | 

 ment are similarly adorned, in the middle it is fuscous, as it is ' 

 also on the apical segment. j 



Male. — Closely resembles the female, but the clypeus and a . 

 transverse line above, the face on each side, the scape in front 

 and the basal half of the mandibles yellow ; the apical half of the , 

 latter ferruginous ; the anterior coxae armed with an elongate I 

 filiform spine, obtuse at its apex and having a brush-like tuft of ' 

 white hair at the extremity : these spines as well as the legs are ■ 

 ferruginous ; the thorax beneath, the coxae and trochanters covered , 

 with long white pubescence ; the tibiae and tarsi have a white ] 

 pubescence above, the posterior femora having some long fuscous ' 

 pubescence within ; the basal joint of the posterior tarsi broadly j 

 dilated, angulated beneath, convex exteriorly, concave within. ^ 

 The pubescence of the abdomen longer, but coloured as in the j 

 female, the apical segment fringed with short black hairs. j 



Hub. Albania. | 



Note. — The name Habrophora, as I have lately ascertained, | 

 having been preoccupied by Erichson in Coleoptera, Habropoda \ 

 must be substituted. ' 



Genus 51. ANTHOPHORA. ; 



Apis, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. 953 (17'''6). ; 



Podalirius, Latr. (olim) Hist. Nat. Cr. et Ins. iii. p. 3/8 (1802) ; 



(Saropoda, Anthophora, Centris). j 

 Anthophora, Latr. Hist. Nat. Cr. et his. xiv. 45. (1804) (Saro- ! 



poda). i 



Megilla, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 328 (1804). ; 



Lasius, pt., Jur. Hym. (1807). ' 



