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along the margin of the vertex, pale yellow. Thorax with the 

 tubercles and a line on the mesothorax over the tegulae, and con- 

 tinued along the posterior margin of the scutellum, pale yellow ; 

 wings hyaline and iridescent, tegulae rufo-testaceous ; the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi pale yellow, the tibiae having a dusky stripe. 

 Abdomen with the first to fifth segments with a transverse pale 

 yellowish- white fascia, the first very widely interrupted, reduced 

 to a lateral spot, the second much less interrupted, the others very 

 slightly so ; the apical segment with a heart-shaped macula ; 

 clothed beneath with pale fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. Bombay district. 



7. Anthidium japonicum. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, closely punctured ; the abdomen 

 shining, and spotted with yellow. The face with a little whitish 

 pubescence at the insertion of the antennas ; two small ovate yellow 

 spots at the posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax with a minute 

 yellow spot on the scutellum laterally ; on the sides and beneath 

 there is thin cinereous pubescence ; the tarsi with cinereous pubes- 

 cence above, and with fulvous beneath ; the posterior tibiae with a 

 narrow whitish line on their upper margin ; the calcaria pale fer- 

 ruginous ; wings subhyaline, their apex fuscous. Abdomen with 

 the first to fifth segments with an oblong-quadrate macula on each 

 side ; the sixth segment immaculate ; clothed beneath with pale 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Yokohama. 



8. Anthidium ordinatum. 



Female. Length 4^-5| lines. — Black ; the head and thorax opaque, 

 and very closely punctured ; abdomen shining, finely punctured, and 

 having four rows of yellowish- white maculae . The clypeus, with 

 the sides anteriorly and the face on each side as high as the base 

 of the clypeus, as well as the base of the mandibles, yellowish 

 white ; the anterior margin of the clypeus with two short blunt 

 teeth. The thorax and legs without maculae ; their pubescence 

 white, except that on the disk of the thorax, which is short and 

 dark brown ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black. The abdomen 

 with four longitudinal rows of irregular-shaped whitish spots ; the 

 two inner rows pear-shaped, and placed obliquely ; clothed beneath 

 with white pubescence. 



Male. Length 6-7 lines. — Closely resembling the female ; but with 

 the clypeus, sides of the face, mandibles, and scape in front 

 yellowish white ; also a narrow interrupted line on the posterior 

 margin of the vertex. Thorax with the pubescence above fulvous, 

 beneath it is white ; the outer margin of the tegulae, a line on the 

 intermediate and anterior tibiae above, and a spot at the base of the 



