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apical part of the abdomen beneath is covered with dark 

 ferruginous hair. There are no dentiform processes on the 

 labrum. 



Xylocopa virginica (Drury). 

 Garrison, N.Y., 2 S {Eleth Cattail). 



Anthophora ursina^ Cresson. 

 Garrison, N.Y., 2 ? {Eleth Cattell). 



Anthophora marginata, Smith, 

 llito de los Frijoles, New Mexico, August {Cockeveli). 



Anthophora vestita, Smith. 



Rosebank Experiment Station, S. Africa, Dec. i>, 190t> 

 2 ? (C. K. Bruin). 



Anthophora rufolanata^ Dours. 



Millets Pt., S. Africa, Nov. 27, 1910, in holes in bank 

 (C. K. Brain). 



The two females before me agree perfectly with Dours's 

 description, except that when extended they are fully 12 mm. 

 long, and the wings are distinctly dusky. The species iss 

 closely allied to A. vestita^ but quite distinct, 



Anthophora fallax, Smith. 



DeviFs Peak, S. Africa, Dec. 1, 1907, \ $ {C. K. Brain). 



Very close to A. circulata, but, I think, distinct. The 

 flagellum is entirely black. Is not A. circulata, var. obscuri- 

 ceps, Fr., the same thing ? 



Anthophora griseovesiita, sp. n. 



(J . — Length about or nearly 10 mm. 



Black, with abundant light greyish-ochreous hair above, 

 black below ; hair of vertex black, but of front and occiput 

 light ; hair of thorax above strongly mixed with black ; eyes 

 light reddish ; clypeus (except rather broad black lateral 

 borders, with a lobe-like extension inwards near upper end), 

 a very minute supraclypeal mark, lateral marks filling space 

 between clypeus and eye (but deeply excavated above), 

 labrum (cxce[)t a spot at each basal corner and four suuill 

 dentiform tubercles on apical margin), large spot on base of 



