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the base of the scutellum, and a smaller one behind the 

 tegulae. Scutellar spines stout. Mesopleurae and ineta- 

 pleuras thickly covered with white pubescence ; strongly 

 punctured. Wings fuscous ; more lightly coloured at the 

 base. Legs black ; the tarsi beneath thickly covered with 

 golden pubescence ; the spurs black. The basal segment 

 closely and rather strongly punctured, margined with 

 silvery white pubescence ; the transverse furrow on the 

 second and third segments rugose ; the apical segment 

 above closely punctured, keeled down the centre ; the 

 keel indistinct at the base, becoming thicker towards the 

 apex, where it is depressed on either side of it. The 

 ventral segments punctured; a band of white pubescence 

 down the centre of the basal ; the others transversely 

 banded with silvery pubescence. 



Comes near to C. fuscipennis, but that species wants 

 the white marks on the mesonotum, which has also the 

 punctures more distinctly separated, this being especially 

 noticeable on the scutellum, where they are round and 

 deep, and not, or hardly, touching each other, whereas in 

 C. sexmaculata they are much coarser and closer, forming 

 a rugose surface. 



Anthophora deiopea, sp. nov. 



Nigra, longe dense pallide hirta ; capite nigro 6 facie 

 alba. Long. 13 mm. 2. 

 Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black, thickly covered with long pale grey hairs, 

 especially on the front and vertex ; the labrum fringed 

 with golden hairs ; the mandibles ferruginous, black at 

 the apex. The vertex behind the front ocellus bare, 

 shining, broadly depressed. Thorax thickly covered with 

 long grey hairs all over. Legs : the femora and tibiae 

 dark rufous ; the former sparsely covered with long white 

 hairs, the front four tibiae covered densely behind with 



