Records of Bees. 1 S I 



heiictitli ; tiibert-Ies yellow, sharply ket-lcd ; mest)thorax 

 uith l)ro:i(l yellow lateral bauds, pointed behind, and ex- 

 tending ulon^i; the anterior margin for some distance, their 

 ends here abru{)tly truncate ; scatellum projecting, broad 

 and short, almost straight-edged, emarginate in middle, not 

 toothed, the sides occupied by a pair of large triangular 

 yellow ])atches, the axillie, which are not toothed or angled, 

 also yellow; pleura with white hair; teguhe bright ferrugi- 

 nous, with a yellow spot in frout. Legs bright ferruginous, 

 with the following parts jjale yellow, lower side of anterior 

 femora, posterior side of middle femora, subapical spot on 

 hind femora, and outer side of all the tibiae. Wings dusky, 

 darker in marginal cell and apical field ; b. n, going far 

 hasad of t.-m. ; second r. n. going well I;eyond end of second 

 s.m. Abdomen with five broad pale yellow bands, broadly 

 interruptt'd on first three segments, more narrowly on 

 fourth, not quite completely on firth; last two segments 

 entirely black. No pulvilli. 



cJ . — Similar, but yellow markings brighter, those of head 

 stained with reddish; mandibles tridentate ; lower mariiin 

 of clypeus fringed wntli wiiite hair; front with a large in- 

 verted-eup-shaped yellow patch ; posterior edge of scutellum 

 very straight, and emargination not evident; pleura with a 

 small yellow spot. "Wings very dark ; legs nearly all yellow, 

 reddish basally, hind femora marked with black behind ; 

 end of abdomen very simple, without lateral teeth, the 

 apex broadly shallowly emarginate, the lobes subaugulate, 

 the structure not unlike that of Anthidium alj/inum, 

 JMorawitz. 



I/ab. N.W. India (E. Comber). British ^Museum. Type 

 (?) from Karachi ; male from " Shpali.^' 



The male of P. soliferum nearly agrees with the description 

 of female Anthidium jlavomacidatum, Cam., from Poona, but 

 it is larger, with darker wings, and must, I think, be 

 different, even if the supposed female y/Gyo?«Ga</o/«m should 

 prove to be really a male. 



Anthidium fries ei, n. n. 



Anthidium Jlavomaculatum, Friese, Apidce von Argentina, 1908, p. 70. 

 Aigentiue Republic. (Not A. Jlavoniaciilatam, Cameron, 1897.) 



Anthidium ternarium, sp. n. 



f?.— Length about \\\ mm. 



Black with bright chrome-yellow markings ; face narrow, 



