56 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



Anthophora clncta, F. 



Tlie locality (Malabar) given for this species by Fabricius 

 in his original description (iSpec. Insect, i. p. 473, 1781) is 

 certainly incorrect, for the species is without doubt Ethiopian, 

 as n( ticed by Smith (Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 124, 

 1871)). Fabricius himself was doubtful at a later date (Syst. 

 Piez. p. 330, 1804), for he queries the locality. 



The Antho2^hora cincta described by Dours (Monogr. Icon., 

 Antho'phora, p. 58) is an Australian species synonymous with 

 A. cingulata, F., q. v. 



Friese did not know A. cincta^ F., from Africa, but Vachal 

 records it from several West-African localities. 



In the British Museum there is a typical series from the 

 Uganda Protectorate: west shore o£ Victoria Nyanza, 

 Buddu (3700 ft.), Sept. 1911 {S. A. JSleave) ; Entebbe, 

 May 1912 {C. C. Gowdey). SlERRA LeONE : Free Town, 

 Sept. 1899 [E. E. Austen). Northern Nigeria: Dec. 

 1912 {J.J. Simpson). 



The following description is taken from the type in the 

 Banks Collection at the British Museum : — 



$ . Black; mandibles (except exireme apex), labium, and 

 a thin X-shaped maik on clypeus pale yellow. Head, 

 thorax, and pleura more or less densely clothed with green 

 pubescence, intermixed with a few black hairs ; i)ubescence 

 behind the eyes below whitish. All the tcrgites with apical 

 metallic-green fascia3, those on tergites 3-5 widening medially. 

 Legs: anterior pair covered with green pubescence, inter- 

 mediate libiso and tarsi green above, black beneath ; j)osterior 

 legs black, the tibise ferruginous above. Antennae black, 

 flagellum ferruginous beneath. 



Antliophura vivida, Smith. 



Friese (' Die Bienen Afrikas,' ]>. 264) wrongly gives the 

 first abdominal segment as having a blue fascia; the first 

 segment is entirely black. 



Anthojyhora modes ta, Smith. 



Dalla Torre (Catal. Hymen, x. p. 277) gives this species 

 as American. Tiie type, which is in the British JMuseum, is 

 frouj St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands. There are also speci- 

 mens with no more explicit data than " West Africa." 



It is a most striking insect ; black, with an apical fascia of 

 white pubisccnce on the first tergitc, and has the inter- 



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