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4 posticis intus penicilloque apicali tarsorum posticorum nigro - setosis ; abdominis segmentis 2. et 3. maxima 

 parte ad basin, 4. ima basi nigro parce hirtis, pilis tenuibus brevissimis fere squamosis; segmento 2. margine 

 apicali fascia interrupta, 3. et 4. fascia marginal! integra bisinuata, e tomento griseo subsquamoso; segmento 5. 

 griseo hirto, et apice fulvo una cum pygidio fimbriato ; labro crasse denseque, clypeo tenuiter et modice punctatis ; 

 antennarum articulo 3. longitudinem 4 sequentium subaequante; area peltiformi epipygii opaca augusta, lineari, 

 plana, haud carinata nee sulcata, apice rotundata, marginibus nonnihil deflexis; aus apice subinfuscatis, basi hyalinis; 

 venis nigris. L. 16 — 17 mm. 



Rondebosch. 



Kapland. 



Anthophora fallax Sm. 



1879 Anthophora fallax Smith, d2> in: Descr. new spec. Hymen., p. 120. 

 1903 „ „ Vachal, in: Ann. Soc. ent. Trance, T. LXXII, p. 377. 



?. Black; the head and thorax above with ochraeeous pubescence tipped with black, that on the face, 

 cheeks, and on the thorax beneath whitish. The clypeus with the lateral and anterior margins and a narrow 

 line in the middle, a transverse line above the clypeus angulated in the middle, the labrum, and mandibles, pale 

 yellow ; the basal margin of the labrum black, the tips of the mandibles ferruginous; wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures dark fuscous; the tegulae pale testaeeous; the posterior tibiae with white pubescence above, beneath 

 with black, the calcaria black. Abdomen with short black pubescence, the apical margins of the first to fourth 

 segments with narrow white pubescent fasciae ; beneath they are margined with fulvous pubescence in the middle 

 and with white at the sides. L. 5 lines (= 10V2 mm). 



d closely resembles the female, but has the scape of the antennae pale yellow in front. 



Natal, Sierra Leone. — Nach Vachal von Sierra Leone und vom Kongo. 



Vachal sagt: „UA. fallax $ Sm., me paralt etre une variete dont le noir du dessous des tibias 3 finit 

 par oecuper le x / 4 , la 1 / 2 , ou les 3 / i de la brosse, et dont les poils du Vertex deviennent d'un fauve roussätre pur. 



3 ? de Sierra Leone, Borna (Tschoffen) et Congo beige (Hoton) au Mus. de Bruxelles." 



? = A. circulata F. 



BlNGHAM erwähnt 3 Exemplare {d%) von Pretoria (Südafrika). 



Anthophora nivea Lep. 



1841 Anthophora nivea Lepelbtiee, $, in: Hist. nat. Insect. Hymen., T. II, p. 52. 



1869 ,, quadrifasciata var. nivea Doues, $, in : Monogr. icon. Anthophora, p. 74 = ? incana Klg. 



?. Nigra, antennis subtus a 3. articulo ferrugineis, labro (puncto utrinque baseos fusco, partim distineto) 

 clypeoque et mandibularum basi lata albis; capite thoraceque albo-villosis ; segmento 1. albo-hirto, 2 — 4. pilis 

 stratis seu squamis albis vestitis, in horum 4 segmentorum margine infero densioribus, 5. lateribus pilis hirtis 

 squamisque intermixtis albido-hirsutis ; hujus dorso anique lateribus pilis nigro-subferrugineis vestitis; segmentis 

 subtus in lateribus albido-, in medio nigro-ferrugineo-ciliatis. 



Pedes fusce ferruginei, ferrugineo-hirsuti, supra, tarsis III exceptis, albo-villosi ; alae hyalinae, nervuris 

 costaque pallide rufis. L. ? mm. 



Senegal. 



Anthophora pallidlcincta Cam. 

 1905 Podalirius pallidicinctus Cameron, d, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 254. 



d- Black; the lower part of the face, the part on the sides roundly incised above clypeus, except for a 

 curved black line along the upper half, the line narrowed above and below; labrum yellow, a black mark on 



