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of the second to fourth abdominal segments covered with 
snow-white pubescence ; pollen-brush yellowish white; the 
legs with scattered snow-white hairs, the tarsi with shining 
ferruginous pubescence. Head from the front nearly circular ; 
eyes large, but not prominent ; face flat in front, the inner 
orbits of the eyes parallel; mandibles grooved and punc- 
tured, armed with four teeth ; clypeus broad, slightly con- 
vex, truncate anteriorly, and with a well-marked medial 
carina, which is produced upwards nearly to the anterior 
ocellus ; starting one on each side of the anterior ocellus two 
other vertical carinz run parallel to the medial one, but 
terminate at the base of the clypeus. Thorax, the mesonotum 
gently convex ; scutellum semicircular, with a sharp poste- 
rior free margin overhanging the postscutellum and median 
segment, the latter two smooth, shining, and polished, not 
punctured. Wings hyaline; nervures dark brown; tegule 
black. Legs stout, the apical joint of the tarsi and claws 
deep yellowish brown. Abdomen rounded and very convex 
above, the basal face of the first segment concave, smooth, 
and shining. 
Length, 9,8; exp. 17 millim. 
flab. Pretoria (Distant). 
Genus ANTHIDIUM, Fabr. 
Anthidium modestum, sp. n. 
@. Black, the legs dark castaneous brown; an oblique 
spot on each side of the first, a transverse similar spot on 
each side but more to the middle on the second, and an oval 
larger macula on each side of the third, fourth, and fifth 
abdominal segments yellow, these larger spots not in the same 
line with the spots on the second segment, but more to the 
middle of the disk of the segments; pilosity long and abun- 
dant, whitish on the face and front, tinged with fulvous on 
the legs and on the abdominal brush beneath, and rufo- 
ferruginous on the thorax. Wings fusco-hyaline; a darker 
streak along the upper half of the radial cell; nervures and 
tegule dark brown; apical joints of the tarsi deep red. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen minutely but closely punctured, 
the former two opaque, the latter shining, the tibie on the 
outer side more coarsely punctured than the rest of the body. 
Length, ?, 11; exp. 23 millim. 
Hab. A single specimen recorded from Pretoria (Zutrzenka). 
This species very closely resembles A. nigriceps, Smith, 
from the Polish Ukraine. It differs, however, in being more 
stoutly built and in the slightly more close punctuation. he 
yellow markings on the abdomen are also different. 
