liecorJs of Been. 5G3 



junction of dorsal and ventral surfaces, largely stained with 

 sooty ; segments 2 to 4 have broad apical bands covered with 

 oppressed golden liair; the second and third segments, ante- 

 rior to the bands, have thin appressed goklen hair, not con- 

 cealing the surface, but at extreme sides the hair is black, 

 with white hair just l)elo\v this on sides of venter ; the fourth 

 segment, c\ce[)t apieally, has appressed black hair, but with 

 gohlen hairs intermixed, especially in middle ; the fifth and 

 apex have strongly plumose sooty-grey hair; the hind legs 

 have all the hair on inner side bright copper-red ; on outer 

 side of hind tibi;ie the hair is posteriorly fuscous, anteriorly 

 brownish white ; labrum entirely clear red, strongly longitu- 

 dinally suleate in middle, the sides of the sulcus raised into 

 prominent lips (the labrum of mccicana is not suleate). Tlie 

 teguhc are light a[)ricot-colour ; hair of thorax above dense 

 and very brigiit fulvous, tipped with fuscous; hair of upper 

 part of pleura largely bhackencd. Wings strongly reddish. 

 Hub. Quirigua, Guatemala (/('". P. (Jockere/l, 420). 



Anthidium rodriyuezi, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 20 mm. ; anterior wing 13, 

 iilack, with the inandibles except at apex, wedge-shaped 

 lateral face-marks between clypeus and eyes, approximately 

 the lower half of clypeus (the margin of the yellow 

 W-shaped), the dorsal surface of scutellum, and the axillie, 

 all pale chrome-yellow ; outer side of all the basitarsi, and 

 large apical pateli on middle tibiae, pale yellow ; abdomen 

 black without markings ; hair of head and thorax white, 

 tinged with ochreous on face, vertex, and mcsothorax ; 

 mesothorax with two very large discal patches of dark 

 fuscous hair, almost united about middle ; ocellar region 

 with fuscous hairs ; mandibles with two large teeth and 

 three little ones ; clypeus closely and finely punctured ; 

 antennae entirely dark, not long ; luesothorax strongly and 

 densely punctured, the middle of disc shining, with the 

 punctures sparser ; scutellum with the edge projecting, 

 emarginate in middle ; teguhe black, with small punctures. 

 Wings fuliginous, the colour somewhat dilute ; upper part 

 of marginal cell greatly darkened ; b. n. going far basad of 

 t,-m. ; second s.m. longer than first, receiving first r. n. very 

 near its base, and second r. n. an equal distance beyond its 

 apex ; anterior legs with a dense iringe of shining white 

 hair behind, especially on l)asitarsi ; middle femora and 

 tibiae thickened, the tibi;e and tarsi with a long fringe of 

 white hair behind ; hind tibiie with a long wedge-shaped 



