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Anthophora acervorum (L.)> typical. 



St. Helens, I. of Wight, April 1921 [Cockerell] ; Ickle- 

 sliam, Sussex, March 1921 [Cockerell). 



I also have a male, without locality, from the Gcrstacckcr 

 collection. The English males have black tegulic, and the 

 black patches on upper part of clypeus reduced to irrcjjular 

 spots or almost wholly absent. Possibly there is a distinct 

 English race. 



Anthophora acervorum, var. Usboneynds, nov. 



? (type). — Aspect of the form pennata (Lep.) ; hair of 

 labrum pale yellow, of cheeks white, of face smd front black 

 mixed with grey, of vertex black ; thorax above with hair 

 mixed l)lack and pale, slightly tawny, l)ccoming pale tawny 

 without black on metathorax (especially large tuft behiiul 

 wings) and base of abdomen. Abdomen with pale tawny 

 liair, slightly mixed with black on apical part of first seg- 

 ment, more consi)icuously on apical part of second and 

 on discs of third and fourth, fifth with a fringe of pure 

 black hair ; sides of venter with greyish-white hair ; scopa 

 of hind legs pale red ; teguhe ferruginous. Wings dusky 

 greyish, not reddened as in nirjrofiilva. 



^ . — Hair greyish white and black, without fulvous ; sides 

 of clypeus with very broad black bands, enlarged above; no 

 yellow spot on mandibles. The genitalia agree with those 

 of a specimen from St. Helens, I. of Wight. 



Lisbon, Portugal, 1 ? , 2 (^ , in the Botanic Garden, 

 :March 9, 1921 ( WUmatte P. Cuckerell). 



This may be essentially the same as the grey form which 

 Alfken regards as var. squalens {Dour?,), hni Dours describes 

 squalens as uniformly covered with dull red hair. It was 

 collected at Amiens. A male from France, received from 

 Vachal, agrees with the Lisbon males, but the female sent 

 with it has the hair dark chocolate, approaching typical 

 acervorum. The form pennata (Lep.), described from Oran, 

 resembles the Lisbon variety in the white hair on checks, 

 but it is not identical, the male especially being differently 

 coloured. 



A paler variety than any of tliose indicated above lias 

 been named cestivaUs (Panzer), while the var. albipes, Friese, 

 has the scopa on hind legs white instead of red. 



The female of lisbonensis is distinctly less robust than 

 typical acervorum, wherein it more resembles the African 

 forms. The var. capillipes (Sichcl) resembles lisbonensis in 



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