Records of Bees. 395 



Anthophora scymna^ Gribodo. 



Described from a single ? from Queensland. A ? before 

 me is from West Australia, '' G8. 6." 



Anthophora rhodoscijmna, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 12^-13 mm. 



Similar to A. scymna, but differing thus: tegument of 

 abdomen entirely bright red, with appressed orange hair, 

 that on first segment more erect and with some black inter- 

 mixed; that on hind margins of segments pale golden, 

 producing faint bands; apex without dark hair; clypeus 

 with a light orange reversed T, the upwardly-directed stem 

 tapering to a point ; hair of cheeks abundant and snow- 

 white ; of vertex and occiput pale yellowish and mixed with 

 black ; of thorax above light yellowish, copiously mixed with 

 black; of pleura pale yellowish; tegulae apricot- colou r ; 

 Avings stained wdth brown along the veins ; the red legs have 

 orange pubescence, but the thick fringe on each side of hind 

 metatarsus and the long inner anterior fringe of hind tibia 

 are black ; the hind femora have short black hair beneath. 

 The fourth ventral segment of abdomen has a conspicuous 

 median tubercle, beset with short ferruginous hair ; the fifth 

 segment is deeply emarginate and the apical one ends in two 

 rather short wddely separated spines, with a low elevation, 

 pyramidal in outline, between. 



Hab. Queensland {Gilbert Turner) ; marked " 300 liy.'' 

 Three males. 



It is not impossible that this is the undescribed male of 

 A. scymna, but with the evidence at present available it must 

 be considered distinct. 



The species of the group of A. zonata are very difficult to 

 classify. Dours, in 18G9, recognized only A. cinctufemorata, 

 Sichel, with a very strongly punctured abdomen, and 

 A. zonata (L.), from Australia, the latter being credited with 

 a number of named varieties. According to the characters 

 given in descriptions, the various named Australian forms 

 may be separated thus : — 



Size small, usutdly less than 13 mm ]. 



Size larger 3, 



1. Hair of thorax silvery ; abdominal bands blue, 



with some green cinctofemorata, Sichel. 



Hair of thorax reddish or rufo-f ulvous 2. 



2. Bands of abdomen metallic blue ; light hair of 



legs white zonata (L.). 



