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macula on each segment laterally ; the apical segment being 

 entirely yellow, and having a central black dot. 

 Hab. The Gambia (Coll. F. Smith.) 



72. ANTHIDIUM VILLOSULUM. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Black, the face as high as the stem- 

 mata and the cheeks densely covered with short pale yellow 

 pubescence, the anterior margin of the clypeus fringed with the 

 same, on the clypeus it is very sparing ; the scape of the antennae 

 in front, the clypeus, sides of the face adjoining, a minute spot 

 above the eyes and the mandibles yellow, the latter armed with 

 three stout black teeth at their apex. The thorax on the sides 

 and beneath, the tibiae behind and all the tarsi above densely 

 clothed with yellowish-white pubescence; the femora beneath, and 

 the tarsi ferruginous ; the anterior and intermediate tibiae above 

 and the posterior pair at the base yellow, the whole having a 

 short scattered glittering pubescence ; the disk of the thorax 

 covered with short ochraceous pubescence, the scutellum rounded 

 behind and slightly emarginate in the middle ; a minute spot on 

 each side of the collar, and a very narrow line on the posterior 

 margin of the scutellum, yellow; the wings subhyaline, their 

 nervures black, except towards the insertion of the wings, where 

 they, as well as the tegulae, are rufo-testaceous, the latter yello\v 

 at their anterior margins. The abdomen has four rows of small 

 ovate yellow spots, the two outer rows touching the lateral mar- 

 gins ; the sixth segment has only two central spots, from which 

 an oblique line passes off to the lateral margins ; the fifth and 

 sixth segments are armed at their margins with a curved spine, 

 the first pair yellow ; the apical segment has two stout curved 

 black spines; beneath, the apex ferruginous, and the lateral mar- 

 gins having a dense fringe of pale pubescence. 

 Hab. Africa. (The Gambia.) 



73. ANTHIDIUM COLORATUM. 



Female. Length 3 lines . Black, the face and cheeks clothed 

 with long white pubescence, the vertex with fulvous ; antennae, 

 legs and tegulae pale ferruginous ; a small white spot on the 

 vertex behind the eyes. The thorax beneath and metathorax 

 covered with white pubescence, on the disk with fulvous ; the 

 wings slightly ferruginous towards their base. Abdomen, the 

 basal margins of the segments have on each side an elongate 

 white stripe emarginate posteriorly, the stripes on the fifth seg- 

 ment almost uniting ; the sixth segment has on each side a 

 minute tooth ; the ventral scopa golden-yellow. 



Male. 3 lines. Very closely resembling the female, differing 



