MEGACHILID^E ANTHOPHORIDA. 271 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, pubescent, thickly and minutely punctured. Mandibles very large, triangular, pro- 

 tended, not crossing each other, armed with four terminal teeth : face between the eyes thickly 

 cloathed with brown hairs, which grow tawny towards the mouth : antenna; filiform : back of the 

 trunk cloathed with brown hairs less thickly in the disk ; wings a little embrowned especially at the 

 apex ; nervures dusky ; base-covers piceous : legs hairy with pale hairs : abdomen subovate with the 

 three last segments fringed with pale hairs intermixed with black; the ventral hairs are tawny, 

 paler towards the base, and darker towards the apex. 



* 



y. Leiogastra. 



Family ANTHOPHORID^l. Anthophoridans. 



CLXIII. Genus ANTHOPHORA. 



(376) 1. * Anthophora bomboides. Humble-bee Anthophora. 



A. ( bomboides J hirsuto-pallida, pedibus, abdominis ano ventreque hirsutie atra ; frorde infra antennas alba : plantis pvslicis 



intus dente valido acuto armatis. 

 Humble-bee Anthophora, hirsuties pale, with that of the legs, the tail, and underside of the abdomen, black ; front below 



the antenna? white ; first joint of the posterior tarsi armed on the inside with a strong sharp tooth. 



Length of the body 6 lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, thickly punctured, cloathed like that of a humble-bee with dense pallid hairs. Head 

 triangular, upper lip subquadrangular, white with a black dot at each upper angle ; nose white, 

 naked ; a bunch of whitish hairs conceals the base of the antenna? ; antenna? filiform, scarcely longer 

 than the head ; vertex with some black hairs thinly scattered ; occiput fringed with whitish ones : 

 trunk subglobose, set with longish white hairs : hairs of the legs mostly black ; tarsi piceous ; the 

 first or dilated joint is armed with a strong and sharp tooth on the inner side at the base : wings 

 subhyaline with black nervures : abdomen between globose and triangular, with the three first dorsal 

 segments cloathed with long whitish hairs, and the tail and ventral segments with black. 



