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yellow ; a very broadly triangular supraclypeal mark of same colour ; 

 scape ferruginous, mainly pale yellowish in front ; flagellum ferru- 

 ginous above and below ; third antennal joint about or almost as long 

 as the next three together, fourth very short ; hair of head and thorax 

 above very pale fulvous, with black intermixed ; abdominal bands 

 broad and very distinct, dull greyish white with a creamy tint ; apex 

 of fifth segment broadly tufted with dark fuscous hair ; tegulae clear 

 rufofulvous ; wings slightly dusky, stigma obsolete, nervures dark 

 rufofuscous ; hair of front legs white ; of middle pair black on under 

 side of femora and tibiae, white on outer side of tibiae, brown-black on 

 tarsi, except the basal two-thirds of basitarsus on outer side, where 

 it is white ; hind legs with hair black, white on knees, posterior side 

 of tibiae (except a ferruginous stain below knee-plate), and tuft on base 

 of basitarsus. Runs in Friese's table of Palaearctic species to A. albi- 

 gena, to which it is closely allied, differing by the redder tint of the 

 thoracic hair ; the very much greater amount of yellow on clypeus ; 

 the lower edge of clypeus narrowly brown, but not black ; the interval 

 between clypeus and eyes yellow throughout ; and the red antennae. 

 The colour and arrangement of the hair on the hind legs is about the 

 same in both. From A. quadrifasciata it is easily known by having 

 the area between clypeus and eyes yellow, the antennae red, &c. From 

 A. circ'ulata (Fabr.), which it much resembles, it differs by the nar- 

 rower face, the light ochre-yellow eyes, and the much shorter third 

 antennal joint. From A. calens, Lep., it differs by the broader and 

 much whiter abdominal bands, &c. 



Hah. Bohotle, Somaliland, 1903 (Vety.-Major A. F. Apple- 

 ton). This has the aspect of a desert insect. 



Anthophora zomhana, n. sp. 

 ? . Length about 12 mm., expanse 19 ; base of mandibles, 

 labrum, and clypeus a sort of pinkish white, the clypeus with a pair 

 of small brownish spots above, but otherwise unmarked ; mandibles 

 dark red in middle, and beyond that most of the outer side straw- 

 yellow ; supraclypeal mark a narrow band ; no lateral face-marks ; 

 antennae dark, flagellum very obscurely reddish beneath, especially 

 at apex ; hair of head and thorax above, including face above clypeus, 

 brilliant orange fulvous, mixed with black on thorax ; beneath the 

 hair is white as usual ; tegulae clear rufotestaceous ; wdngs dusky, 

 nervures piceous ; hair of femora pale, but that of middle and hind 

 tibiaB and tarsi black, except a very narrow line of white along hind 

 edge of hind tibiae ; abdominal bands distinct but dullish, the first 

 two or three orange fulvous, the fourth, and third at sides, pui'plish 

 white ; sides of fifth segment with white hair. This would be taken 

 at first sight for A. quadrifasciata, but it is easily known by the light 

 clypeus and the black hair of hind tibiae and tarsi. The closest affinity 

 seems to be with A. nigritarsis, Fi-iese, but it is larger than that, and 

 has the colour of the legs differently distributed. The labrum is 

 coarsely rugose, and the third antennal joint is about as long as the 

 following three together. The eyes are grey-purple. 



Hab. Zomba, British Central Africa, April. 1906 (J. E. S. 

 Old). 



