HYMENOPTERA. 329 



43. ANTHOPHORA ATRO-ALBA. B.M. 



Anthophora atro-alba, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 73. 41. 

 Brulle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. iii. 84. 9. 



Hab. The Canaries; Albania; Italy. 



44. ANTHOPHORA PULVEROSA. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black, densely clothed with hoary 

 pubescence, that on the disk of the thorax has an ochraceous 

 tinge, on the abdomen it is very short and also tinged with 

 ochraceous, that on the apex of the abdomen is dark fuscous ; 

 on the posterior tibiae the pubescence is bright and glittering, 

 faintly tinged with yellow, but at the apex of the intermediate 

 tibiae and on the anterior tarsi it is of a brighter yellow, the 

 apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous; the flagellum beneath, 

 the legs and abdomen beneath rufo-piceous ; the wings hyaline, 

 the nervures and tegulae pale testaceous ; on the apical margins 

 of the segments of the abdomen is a fascia of pale pubescence. 



Male. Rather smaller than the female and having a similar 

 dusty appearance, the pubescence being of a little brighter 

 yellow ; the scape in front, the clypeus, the face on each side, a 

 line above the clypeus, the labrum and mandibles white, the 

 latter ferruginous at their apex, the legs ferruginous ; otherwise 

 as in the female. 



Hab. Canary Islands. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



45. ANTHOPHORA SOCIA. 



Megilla socia, King, Symb. Phys. dec. v. t. 49. f . 6 $ . 

 Hab. Syria. 



46. ANTHOPHORA ROBUSTA. 



Megilla robusta, King, Symb. Phys. dec. v. t. 49. f . 5 $ . 

 Hab. Syria. 



47. ANTHOPHORA CONCINNA. 



Megilla concinna, King, Symb. dec. v. t. 49. f. 1 1 <? . 

 Hab. Syria. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



48. ANTHOPHORA FARINOSA. 



Megilla farinosa, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. v. t. 50. f. 2 ? . 

 Hab. Arabia Felix. 



