COMPARATIVE NOTES ON V. URTIC.??, ETC. 339 



Anthophora leucophora, n. sp. 



(? . Length about 15 mm., expanse about 24; hair of head and 

 thorax coloured as in ^. zombana ; hair-band on first abdominal seg- 

 ment narrow and fulvous ; segments two to four with very well- 

 marked white hair-bands (not so broad as in ^. medicorum), strongly- 

 contrasting with the black background ; wings dilute fuliginous, about 

 as in A. basalts, Sm. ; anterior femora and tibiae with much fulvous 

 hair behind, and their tarsi on outer side covered with the same hair, 

 otherwise the hair of the legs is black (a little pale along hind margin 

 of middle tibiae), including all of posterior tibiae and tarsi. Basal half 

 of mandibles, labrum, lateral face-marks (filling space between clypeus 

 and eyes), clypeus (except two very large black areas, leaving a 

 dagger-shaped central light band), and a very low supraclypeal tri- 

 angle, all brownish or pinkish white, the lower margin of clypeus 

 narrowly ferruginous ; scape rather stout, with a large white mark in 

 front ; liagellum black, very faintly reddish beneath ; third antennal 

 joint about as long as the next three together, the fourth very short ; 

 mesothorax densely punctured ; tegulae ferruginous ; apex of abdomen 

 broadly shallowly emarginate. 



Var. a. Clypeal marks reduced, emarginate below ; posterior 

 tibiae with a patch of fulvous hair on middle of outer side, and a 

 small white apical tuft. 



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

 Old). This cannot be the male of A. zombana, for not only is it 

 much larger, with differently coloured abdominal bands, but 

 there is a difference in the venation. The third submarginal 

 cell is very broad below, and conspicuously narrower above, 

 whereas in A . zombana it is broader above than below. Super- 

 ficially, A. leucophora looks exactly like A. quadrifasciata from 

 Oran, but the dark clypeal marks, much more slender third 

 antennal joint, and colour of hair on hind tibiae readily dis- 

 tinguish it. 



COMPARATIVE NOTES ON V. URTICM, L., var. 

 ICHNUSA, BoN., AND var. TURCICA, Stand. IS 

 V. URTICM, L., THE "REDDEST" FORM AMONG 

 ALL THE "TORTOISESHELL" VANESSID^? 



By T. Rbuss. 



(Concluded from p. 281.) 



The var. turcica* is, on the other hand, often most faithfully 

 pictured in a single aberrative specimen of urticce, the form 

 often emerging under normal external conditions ; and if only 

 the upper side is considered, this aberration is perhaps a little 

 more frequent in England than in Central Europe, but the 



''''• Considered as a local race, variable in itself. 



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