Records of Bees. 491 



Megachile d'lnura, Ckll. 



A female from Foocliow, China {H. R. Caldwell), in the 

 U.S. National Museum, cannot be separated from the 

 Formosan 31. dinura. It is in poor condition, having 

 apparently been in alcohol. 



Anthopora zonata (L.). 



The Sauter collection from Formosa contains a long series 

 of A. zonata, or what has passed everywhere as the Linnean 

 species. The females include eleven from Takao, August to 

 December, and ten without precise locality. The abdominal 

 bands vary from bright blue to pale green, but I cannot 

 distinguish more than one species. So far as the females go, 

 there is no apparent difficulty in assigning them to A. zonata, 

 and, according to current usage, the name var. subccerulea 

 (Lep.) is applied to those with pale bands. An examination 

 of the males reveals a curious state of affairs. The colour 

 of the abdominal bands varies as in the females, but there are 

 other good characters separating the specimens into three 

 groups, as follows : — 



(1) A. zonata proper, in the sense of Lepeletier and Dours. 



Face-markings creamy white ; clypeus with only a 

 narrow black band on each side ; hair of hind basi- 

 tarsus entirely black ; fifth ventral segment black, 

 with black hair, its apical margin broadly excavated 

 or emarginate ; last ventral keeled. Thirty speci- 

 mens ; Takao, August to October ; Taihauroku, 

 June 11. 



(2) A. korotonensis, nov. Face-markings light primrose- 



yellow ; bands at sides of clypeus rather broad, but 

 essentially as in zonata ; outer side of hind basi- 

 tarsus with much white hair ; fifth ventral segment 

 very dark reddish, black-haired, with a tuft of 

 white hair on each side (small white tufts also in 

 zonata), the apical margin broadly excavated, but 

 also depressed in middle. Koroton, Sept. 8, 1907. 

 One specimen. 



(3) A. calceifera, nov. Face-markings coloured as in 



zonata, but black marks at sides of clypeus large, 

 notched below, having the form of a boot (in a 

 single specimen the marks are narrower and band- 

 like) ; hind basitarsi with a good deal of white hair 

 on outer side : fifth ventral segment coloured like 



