SOME ASIATIC BEES OF THE GENUS ANTHOPHORA, 235 



Hab. Karachi, N.W. India, September, 1909 ; two females 

 (E. Comber). British Museum. The wings are certainly no 

 darker than in qiiadrifasciata ; they are distinctly darker in 

 pei'sicorum. 



Anthophora delicata, n. sp. 



(^ . Length about 10 mm. ; flagellum about 4|- mm. ; black, in- 

 cluding legs and antennae ; pubescence pure white, except on head 

 and thorax above (including tubercles), where it is warm pale ochre- 

 ous, of a very delicate and beautiful tint, on the middle of mesothorax 

 and anterior part of scutellum with fuscous hairs intermixed ; hair 

 on inner side of middle and hind tibiae and tarsi black, on inner side 

 of anterior tarsi red ; hind tibiae with pure white hair on outer side ; 

 hind basitarsi with hair all black except a small white tuft at base ; 

 middle basitarsi covered with white hair on outer side ; spurs black ; 

 antennae long ; third joint shorter than fifth, fourth broader than long ; 

 face-markings light canary-yellow, including clypeus (with only a 

 little black on each side above), a small supraclypeal mark (but no 

 lateral marks), labrum (with a pair of elongate small basal spots), and 

 mandibles except apex ; labrum a little broader than long ; eyes red ; 

 face narrow, densely covered with white hair ; wings hyaline, with a 

 glaucous tint, nervures piceous ; second s. m. narrow, receiving first 

 r. n. much beyond middle ; b. n. falling a considerable distance short 

 of t. m. ; abdomen with five broad white hair-bands, first segment 

 hairy all over, but thinly on disc, so that it appears grey ; apex broadly 

 emarginate, subdentate. 



$ . Similar, but larger and more robust, length about 12 mm. ; 

 face-markings similar, except that the black marks at sides of clypeus 

 above are large, leaving a large triangular yellow interval between 

 them, shining and irregularly punctured ; flagellum dark red beneath 

 except at base ; third antennal joint as long as the next three 

 together, fourth extremely short ; hair of hind basitarsus black, with 

 a basal white tuft on outer side ; hair of middle tibia with a rufous 

 apical patch ; wings brownish. The abdomen of one specimen carries 

 two pollen-bodies of an asclepiad. 



Hab. Karachi, N.W. India, September, 1909 (E. Comber). 

 British Museum. In Friese's tables the female runs to A. velocis- 

 sima and the male to A. nigricornis. 



The following key will separate the allied species : — 



Spurs rufo-testaceous ; male clypeus with anterior margin 



and a median stripe light (Quetta) . picicornis, Fedtschenko. 

 Spurs black 1. 



1. Hind femora of male incrassate ; hind basitarsi of female 



white haired with black apical tuft (Quetta) 



velocissima, Fedtschenko. 

 Hind femora of male not incrassate 2. 



2. Nervures red-brown ; face-markings ivory-white 



nigricornis, Morawitz. 

 Nervures piceous ; face-markings yellow . . delicata, Ckll. 

 The male is the type. 



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