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similarly ; but the three segments following are almost naked, except their ciliated 

 margins. The apical fimbria is dense and conspicuous ; dusky in the middle of 

 segment 5, and entirely so on segment 6. It is white at the sides of segment 5 ; 

 the hairs long, sub-erect, and incurved at their apices. The ventral segments are 

 fringed with long sub-erect hairs. 



The pilosity of the legs (scopae, etc.) is mostly white, but is fulvous (or in some 

 lights golden) on the inside of the tarsi. 



The base of the labrum is polished and shining. The clypeus is coarsely and 

 somewhat rugosely punctured; the rest of the head and thorax are punctured more 

 finely. Between the punctures the surface appears smooth and shining. The 

 propodeum is opaque in the middle, less so at the sides, its sculpture feeble and 

 shallow. The abdomen is finely and closely punctured throughout, the punctures 

 very shallow, and the surface between them microscopically acicnlate, yet slightly 

 shining. 



Anthidium pullatum n. sp. 



Corpus, exceptis mandibulis late citrino-pictis, punctoqne parvo citrino pone 

 utrumqne oculum, nigrum immaculatum. 



Olypei snbquadrati margo apicalis reflexus, crenatus. Scutelli margo edentatus, 

 arcuatus, in medio leniter introrsus sinuatus. Corpus superne breviter, infra et 

 in lateribus multo longius, albido-pilosum. Scopa ventralis alba: abdominis segmenti 

 dorsalis 5 U margo satis conspicue niveo-fasciatus. Pedes extra niveo- intus fulvo- 

 pilosi. Calcaria alba. Ungniculi in medio acute denticulati. Mandibulae, clypeique 

 margo crenatus, valde nitentes : reliquum caput cum thorace dense rugoso-punctatum 

 et opacnm. Abdomen concinne punctulatum, subopacum. Alae sordide hyalinae. 

 Cellulae radialis dimidium superius infuscatum. Tegularum margines externi late 

 scariosi. Abdominis segmentum quasi in medio carinatnm (lateribus utrinque 

 impressis vel foveatis) ; cuius carinae apex ultra reliquum marginem segmenti (fere 

 sicut dens obtusus) prominet. 



Long. circ. 11 mm., lat. 4 mm. 

 2 ? $ , Oued Nca. 



Of the known Anthidium species with immaculate abdomen the nearest to 

 pullatum seems to be moricei Friese, but that appears to have black mandibles, 

 and its body is described as shining, whereas in pullatum it is decidedly opaque. 

 Montanum Morawitz is altogether unlike it, having (inter alia) a quite different 

 pilosity. I have compared Dr. Hartert's specimens with all the forms of Antkidium, 

 named and unnamed, in the South Kensington collections, but can find nothing 

 really resembling them, nor even, I believe, at all nearly related to them. But, till 

 the c? is known, it is perhaps rash to discuss the affinities of the ¥ . 



