324 HYMENOPTERA. 



of the thorax clothed with black pubescence, enclosed by a circle 

 of short fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the pubescence is black ; 

 the fringe of the femora intermixed with pale hairs ; the legs 

 dark rufo-piceous, the posterior tibiae and the basal joint of the 

 tarsi covered with short fulvous pubescence ; the wings fusco- 

 hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen clothed with a dense 

 short fulvous pubescence, which is brightest on the two basal 

 segments, on the third and following segments it becomes ochra- 

 ceous, the fifth segment has a little bright fulvous pubescence on 

 the marginal fringe, on the apical one it is ferruginous. 



Hob. South of France. 



18. ANTHOPHORA DUFOURII. 

 Anthophora Dufourii, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 75. 43. 

 Hob. France ; Spain. 



19. ANTHOPHORA CRASSIPES. 



Anthophora crassipes, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 41. 15 $ . 

 Hab. France (St. Germains). 



20. ANTHOPHORA CRINIPES. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black, clothed with a pale ochra- 

 ceous pubescence, inclining to hoary-gray on the face, metatho- 

 rax, femora beneath, and on the posterior tibiae above ; at the 

 apex of the femora and tibiae is a little bright yellow or golden 

 pubescence : the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen 

 are pale testaceous, and have a fringe of nearly white pubescence ; 

 the abdomen beneath and the legs are rufo-piceous ; the fourth 

 and fifth ventral segments have a mixture of ferruginous hairs 

 with the pale pubescence which fringes them ; the wings sub- 

 hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the apical joints of all the 

 tarsi ferruginous ; the flagellum of the antennae rufo-piceous 

 beneath. 



Male. Rather smaller than the female, clothed with similar 

 pubescence ; the clypeus, a transverse line above, the labrum and 

 scape in front, yellow ; the margins of the labrum and two round 

 spots at the base fuscous. The intermediate legs elongate, the 

 basal joint of the tarsi dilated towards the apex, and having on 

 its apical half in front a short fringe of black pubescence ; the 

 entire joint as well as the tibiae behind covered with a thin long 

 pale pubescence ; the apical joint of the tarsi black, and having 

 a short fringe on each side of black pubescence. 



Hab. Italy. 



