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black ; hind basitarsi with much white hair on outer side ; wings 

 dusky; tegulae dull ferruginous ; eyes clear yellowish-green. 



Hah. Manila, Philippine Islands (W. A. Stanton). U. S. 

 National Museum. The male may show that this is a distinct 

 species, perhaps nearer to caldwelli than to zonata. The abdo- 

 minal bands are essentially as in true zonata, not at all as in 

 whiteheadi. Lepeletier says of female zonata that the hind tibire 

 have the hair on outer side longitudinally divided into black and 

 white ; some of the Siamese examples show this very well, but 

 the Manila insect lacks this character, though it has a streak of 

 black hair running down from the knee-plate. A closely related 

 form is A. zonata andrewsi from Java and Borneo; it differs 

 typically in the abdominal bands being yellowish-green, with 

 coppery tints, but intermediate forms may occur. The hair on 

 the hind tibiae in andreivsi is as in stantoni. 



Anthophora superans, Walker. 



I have one of Walker's cotypes, labelled "Gebel Musa, Mt. 

 Sinai." It is a male, and probably Walker's description was 

 taken from this sex, although it is stated to represent a female. 

 The species closely resembles A. r/arnda, but the first abdominal 

 segment is entirely covered with fulvous hair, indicating an 

 approach to A. harmalfe. The following characters are signi- 

 ficant : — 



Length about 18 mm., expanse about 28 ; pubescence fulvous ; 

 hair of head and thorax above without dark hairs intermixed ; hair 

 on inner side of hind basitarsi warm dark red ; wings dusky hyaline ; 

 second s. m. exceedingly broad below, receiving first r. n. about 

 middle ; b, n. meeting t. m. ; face-markings _^ja/e yellow, including 

 front of scape broadly, the usual supraclypeal mark, lateral face- 

 marks filling space between clypeus and eye, clypeus (without any 

 black lateral marks, though lower margin is narrowly fusco-ferru- 

 ginous as usual), labrum (with a small pellucid spot at each upper 

 corner), and greater part of mandibles; labrum considerably broader 

 than long ; third antennal joint fully as long as the next two com- 

 bined ; flagellum very dark reddish beneath ; middle tarsi long, but 

 not otherwise peculiar ; end of abdomen emarginate, hardly bi- 

 dentate ; abdominal hair-bands broad, entirely fulvous. 



Anthophora quadrifasciata xerophila, new subspecies. 

 ? . Length almost 16 mm. ; similar to quadnfasciata, except as 

 follows : hair of head and thorax above pale ochreous ; abdomen with 

 four broad pure white bands ; face-markings white ; black lateral 

 marks on clypeus smaller, not much broader than the interval be- 

 tween them ; all the hair on first abdominal segment white. Very 

 close indeed to A. persicorum, Cockerell, but a little larger, antennas 

 as far as third joint (rest missing) black, legs black, hind spurs black. 

 The hair of hind basitarsus is entirely black, but the middle basi- 

 tarsus has a large tuft of white occupying the basal half posteriorly. 

 This runs exactly to A. quadrifasciata in Friese's tables. 



