390 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — JJescriptLns and 



Brincls bluish white ; hair of thorax rufo- 



fulvous pulchra, Siii. 



3. Bands bhie or silvery blue ; hair of lej,'s on 



outside ferruginous enieudata, Sm. 



Bands bluish green or pale blue, not very 

 metallic ; hair of legs on outside bluish. , . . cimjidata (Fubr.). 



A. cinctofemorata is clearly distinct from auytliing I Lave 

 seen. The species before me I classify as follows, recognizing 

 that some revision will probably be necessary in the light of 

 fuller information : — 



Anthophora zonula (L.). 



Three females from Queensland [Gilbert Turner, 29S) aod 

 " Australia, 95. 64/^ agree excellently with zonula. Curiously, 

 liowever, the two males accompanying them, collected in 

 Queensland by Gilbert Turner (297 Hy. an 1 298), are both 

 of the variety subcceridea (Lep.), not hitherto reported from 

 Australia. The one labelled 298 has pale blue bauds, the 

 other a sort of greenish white. 



Anthophoru emendala, Smith. 



Queensland {Gilbert Turner, 299) ; 1 ? , 2 c? • 

 The two males differ greatly in size, but they appear to 

 belong to the same species, and the collector has given them 

 the same number. The tifth ventral segment in the male is 

 more strongly emarginate than in zonutu, so I do not think 

 emenclatu can be a mere colour-variety. Smith describes 

 the female as 6 lines long, and gives good reasons for 

 supposing that Dours's measurement of 18 mm. (under the 

 erroneous name " cincfa, Fabr."j is a mistake. My female 

 and one of the males are larger than Smith indicates, being 

 about 13 mm. long, but the small male agrees with "Smith's 

 measurement. Smith says the female has the clypeus 

 reddish yellow, while Donrs says it is marked as in zonula ; 

 my ? agrees with the latter statement. Smith says that 

 the ventral surface of the abdomen has fulvous hair in the 

 middle, white at the sides ; Dours says reddish black in the 

 middle, white at sides ; my insect has it black in the middle, 

 Avhite at the sides. In view of these discrepancies 1 will 

 designate my insect var. Gilberli, tuk'mg the female and large 

 male as typical of the variety. 



Anthophora Walkeri, sp. n. 



? , — Length just over 12 mm. 



zonula ; flagellum, except 



