Descriptions and Records of Bees. 113 



IX. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXXXVIII. 

 By T. D. xV. CocKEHELL, University of Colorado. 



Eucera notata, Lepeletier. 

 Tangier, Marocco. From Queeusland Museum. 



Eucera nigrilabris, Lep. [terminalis, Sm.). 



Ras-el-Ma, Algeria. (Queensland Museum.) 

 Tiie male cannot be recognised by Friese's key, as he places 

 it in the group with the abdominal hair all grey, which is 

 by no means true of nigrolabris. Also from Rus-el-Ma are 

 E. collaris, Dours, and E. eucnemidea, Dours. 



Centr'is obscuriventris, Friese. 

 " Guyaue, Maroui." From Queensland Museum. 



Anthophura urbana, Cresson. 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, Aug. 3 (Cockerell). 



Anthophora jlavicoUis, Gerst. 



Dimbroko, French W. Africa. From Queensland, 

 Museum. 



Anthophora atroalba, Lepeletier. 



^ . — Length about 14 mm., anterior wing 9*3 mm. 



Black, with abundant erect hair, not forming distinct 

 bauds on abdomen ; malar space very short, but distinct ; 

 pale yellow marks as follows : — labrum (except basal spots), 

 large triangular mark on clypeus (its sides concave, its upper 

 end pointed), small lateral face-marks (ploughshare-slKi[)cd, 

 with a linear extension along orbits to level of middle of 

 supraclypcal area), a narrow transverse supraclypcal band, 

 and broad band on front of scape ; mandibles bidcntatc, 

 entirely black ; third antennal joint as long as the next 

 three together ; hair of head and thorax pale, yellowish 

 grey on thorax above (the effect rather olivaceous), black 

 hair in middle of mesothorax and on vertex, not conspicuous ; 

 face with long white hair, but black at sides ; sides of thorax 

 posteriorly with br()wn-l)lac'k hair; teguhc black. Wings 

 hyaline, apical margin faintly brownish. Legs black, with 

 black and white hair; middle basltarsl willi a very bioad 



Ann. <b Muf/. N. Ijisf Scr. \). Vol. v. b 



