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at base, ferruginous beneath ; liair o£ vertex and thorax 

 al)ove blixish white very strongly mixed with black, of pleura 

 bluish white, of cheeks and sides of metathorax white, of 

 legs as in zonata ; abdominal bands strongly metallic, the 

 first emerald-green, the other three paler, with mother-o£- 

 jjearl tints; teguhe dark rufous. 



^ . — Length about 10 mm. 



Face-marks chrome-yellow; clypeus wnth a large black 

 mark on each side, shaped like a human foot; hair of hind 

 tarsi entirely black ; abdominal bands emerald-green, the 

 last two and the third at the sides largely overlaid with 

 white. 



Hub. Baudin Island, Long Reef, Western Australia, 2 ? , 

 1 ^, collected by Commander J. J. Walker on the 

 ' Penguin ' Expedition. 



Tliis exquisite species is appropriately named after its 

 discoverer, whose collections have made such important 

 additions to our knowledge of the Australian insect-fauna. 

 It is nearest to A. cingulata, but distinguished by its smaller 

 size and strongly metallic bands, and in the male by the 

 markings of the clypeus. The structure of the male abdomen 

 beneath is nearly as in zonata. It is to be remarked that 

 the Australian A. cingulata, as described by Dours, does not 

 agree with the Indian cingulata, described by Bingham. As 

 the species was originally described from Australia, I take it 

 that the Doursian description pertains to the true cingulata, 

 though the length he gives (18 mm.) must be a misprint for 

 13. Dours says the wings are 10 mm. long, and I find them 

 so in a specimen 13 mm. long. 



AntJiophora cingulata (Fabr.). 



Clare, South Australia {W. Wesche) ; two females taken, 

 Nov. 20, 1904. 



The hair on the outside of the front and middle legs is 

 largely bluish green. Froggatt states that this bee is widely 

 distributed over the southern part of Australia (Tr. Hoy. 

 Soc. Austr., June 1893). 



Anthopliora adelaida, sj). n. 



^ . — Length about 11 mm. 



Looks like a variety of A. zonata ov pulchra, but is distin- 

 guished as follows : face-marks chrome-yellow ; clypeus at 

 upper sides with large foot-like black patches, with the heel 

 very long and the toe very short ; hair of head and thorax 

 above as in zonata, light fulvous strongly mixed with black; 



