256 Natal Bees 
hair; sides of thorax posteriorly with long fulvous hair; tegule 
ferruginous ; wings dusky, nervures black ; legs with the hair mainly 
white. a tuft of fulvous on inner side of middle tarsi, middle tarsi with 
black hair, except a white line on basitarsi, hind tarsi with hair all 
black ; abdomen with pale fulvous hair at extreme base, but black 
hair on first segment above, and a band of white hair on its hind 
margin; segments 2 to 5 with similar rather narrow white bands ; 
segments 4 and 5 with scattered white hairs, and longer black ones, 
on the disc; apex and venter with black hair. On inner side of hind 
tibie the hair is black. 
Durban, Natal, 25th January, 1919 (C. N. Barker). Type. Also 
one from Winklespruit, 27th December, 1918 (C. N. Barker). In 
Friese’s table this runs nearest to A. circu/ata, from which it is quite 
distinct. It closely resembles A. rapida, Smith, described from Natal, 
and may prove to be its male. Only the female of rapida was known 
to Smith, and the species was unknown to Friese when he wrote his 
work on African bees. Meade-Waldo states that the apical band on 
the first abdominal segment is pale fulvous in rapida. 
The following table separates the species of Anthophora sent in the 
last consignment. 
Labrum black ; clypeus with only an apical yellow banda sac 
(Krantz Kloof, 2nd April, 1917, Marley)...A. vestita, Smith. 
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1. Clypeus white, except marginal stripes......... mediorufa, Ckll. 
Clypeus‘atileast largely iblacke.., <tc. -ceccoct- eens ae seote arene 2. 
DP Scape bl AG as toe meter ein twa cay Ace 4 Oe eee eaten: mee eter eter ae 3. 
Scape with a, yellow stripe, males. ....... 22... s see eeneeenr seh: 4, 
3. Larger; hair-bands of abdomen red..... A. capensis, Friese, 9. 
Smaller; hair-bands of abdomen white............ A. circulata, 
Fabricius, 2. (Pinetown, 12th November, 1916 (H. W. Bell 
Marley). 
4. Abdomen black, with conspicuous whitish hair-bands........... 
A, fallax, Smith (Umbilo, 1916 (L. Bevis). 
Abdomen swith medshairic..s-2.s-ehe se soeeen ceerene eee eee 5. 
or 
Vertical band on clypeus almost or quite parallel-sided ; 
abdomen tridentate at apex...............065 A, odontura, Ckll. 
Vertical band on clypeus narrowing above ; abdomen bidentate 
SUD AOR. 2 clo nerng dues doe doch emsane ase ac mateas eee A, capensis, Friese. 
