XI.—A new Bee from Natal, 
by 
T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 
HAVE just received from Mr. E. C. Chubb, specimens of a bee of 
such extraordinary beauty that it deserves to be recorded without 
delay. It reaches me on the very day that we have received word of 
the complete triumph of the allied armies in Europe, and the cessation 
of fighting. Because of its splendid blue colour of the abdomen I call 
it ceelestina, heavenly ; may it be an omen of better days to come! 
ANTHOPHORA CCELESTINA, Sp. NOV. 
2. Length about 13 mm., anterior wing 9 mm.; robust, black, 
with white markings on the head as follows: a reversed T-shaped 
mark on clypeus, the arms very long, the stem not reaching upper 
border of clypeus; a transverse supra-clypeal band; a very broad 
crescentic mark on labrum; and nearly all of base of mandibles. 
Hair of head and thorax above pale fulvous mixed with black, of 
lower part of cheeks pure white, of under side of thorax yellowish- 
white ; antenne entirely black, third joint very long ; tegule brownish 
ferruginous ; wings strongly dusky, nervures piceous ; legs black, the 
hair on outer side white, but hind tibiz with a band of black hair 
running down in the midst of the white, and brush at end of hind 
basitarsi black ; inner face of tibie with black hair; inner face of 
hind basitarsi with reddish-black hair; abdomen with pale fulvous 
hair at extreme base, and black hair at extreme apex ; black patches 
also at the sides of the first four segments, and much white hair at 
sides, especially of fifth ; otherwise the abdomen above is covered with 
splendid bright blue shining scale-like hairs, from the apical band of 
first segment to the apex of fourth, segments two to four with bands 
where the blue is thin across the middle. 
¢. Similar but somewhat smaller; the sides of the face with 
large white triangular areas; the labrum nearly all white; scape 
with a white mark in front; third antennz joint not as long as the 
next three together ; hair of thorax more strongly fulvous; no black 
stripe on the white hair of outer side of hind tibie; base of second 
abdominal segment nude and therefore black; apex of abdomen 
bi-dentate, the teeth wide apart. 
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