118 A new Bee. 
? (type) from Durban, Natal, 2nd April, 1918 (C. W. Barker). 
¢ with same data, except that it is 16th March, 1918. 
There are in Africa several species of Anthophora with more or less 
blue colour on the abdomen, namely : 
Anthophora cincta, Fabricius. Congo, etc. 
cerulea, Friese. Central Africa. 
: vivida, Smith. (with variety guinea, Strand). Congo. 
a, analis, Dours. Congo, ete. 
A aerizusa, Vachal. Sierra Leone. 
55 expleta, Vachal. Belgian Congo. 
AS vividula, Strand (with variety conradsi, Strand). 
Central Africa. 
Of these, I possess the first four, and all are quite distinct from 
A. celestina. The remaining three, known to me only by descriptions, 
are also very distinct. From all of these, A. cwlestina is especially 
known by the almost entirely blue abdomen, and the brilliance of the 
blue. Friese (Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1915, p. 290) states that he 
has seen a female, A. cerulea, from Natal, collected at Durban, and 
belonging to the Cape Museum. Does A. cerulea occur at Durban, 
or did he possibly see a worn specimen of calestina? As Friese gives 
a very wide distribution for carwlea, it is possible that it is composite ; 
I will therefore designate Sierra Leone, the first locality cited, as the 
type locality. 
The following key will assist in the separation of the species : 
Hair of thorax mixed green and black ; abdominal bands shining 
emerald green (Tero Forest, Uganda, July, 1912, C. C. Gowdey ; 
compared with type by Meade-Waldo) . .. . cincta (Fabr.). 
Hair of thorax mixed blue and black, posteriorly all black ; 
abdomen with blue bands, not shining, on hind margins of 
segments, but only a vestige on first (Bugoma and Budongo 
Forests, Uganda, S. A. Neave ; compared with type by Meade- 
Waldo) . . . . vivida, Smith. 
Similar to vivida, but hair of thorax mixed whitish and black, 
the effect gray; abdomen with dull pale blue bands, and 
scattered blue scale-like hairs over the surface, first segment 
with a band; tegule piceous (my specimens from the interior 
of Benguella) . . . . cerulea, Friese. 
Large and dark, abdomen bluish or bluish-white when fresh, but 
easily denuded ; hind legs of female with black hair, except a 
white pencil at end of tibis (Cameroons, A. Diehl) .., . analis, 
Dours, 
