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fuscous-hyaline, suffused with violaceous tints ; the nervures and 

 stigma black. $ . 



Length 15-16 mm. 



Cape Colony. O'okiep. 



Head closely, rugosely punctured. Base of mandibles aciculated, 

 pilose ; the central part strongly, but not closely, punctured. Thorax 

 closely, somewhat strongly punctured ; the metanotum, if anything, 

 more strongly punctured ; the basal area smooth. Abdomen closely, 

 but not so strongly punctured as the thorax ; the apices of the seg- 

 ments brownish ; the last segment tridentate ; the middle tooth 

 large, broad, slightly longer than its width ; its apex rounded, pro- 

 jecting roundly, but not much at the sides ; the lateral teeth smaller, 

 shorter, broad at the base, narrowed towards the apex, which is 

 rounded. Legs thickly covered with long pale hair ; the hair on the 

 tarsi of a brighter fulvous tint. 



Gen. ANTHIDIUM, Fab. 

 Anthidium capense, sp. nov. 



Black ; the clypeus, an irregular line on the apex of the sixth and 

 the whole of the apical segments yellow ; the apices of the basal 

 five abdominal segments whitish-yellow ; the front, vertex, and 

 upper part of thorax thickly covered with long reddish-fulvous hair ; 

 the hair on the face, clypeus, pleurae, and abdomen white, the hair 

 on the back of the abdomen with a faint fulvous tinge. Wings 

 hyaline, the nervures and stigma black. $ . 



Length 9-10 mm. ; breadth 4 mm. 



Cape Colony. 



Middle of mandibles with a broad yellow band above. Apex of 

 abdomen with four teeth ; the outer slightly shorter and broader 

 than the inner. The tarsi, except at the base, and the anterior 

 tibiae in front are testaceous ; middle femora with a short blunt tooth 

 on the apex. Head and thorax closely and strongly punctured. 

 Apex of scutellum bluntly rounded. 



The female has the head and mandibles entirely black ; the scopa 

 and the hair on the under side of the tarsi rufous ; the apical joints 

 of the tarsi ferruginous. The antennae with both sexes are entirely 

 black ; the basal five bands on the abdomen, in both sexes, are 

 narrow and of uniform width ; the last segment, in the female, is 

 entirely black ; the calcaria pale. The tooth on the apex of the 

 middle femora is found also in the female. The hind tibiae narrowed 

 at the base, becoming slightly, gradually wider towards the apex, 

 which is wider than the metatarsus. Tegulae black. 



