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Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



Legs thickly covered with long pale hairs ; a mark on the 

 under side of the fore femora ; the tibiae above yellow, the 

 yellow becoming successively longer, but not reaching to 

 the apex ; the hairs on the hind tibiae and tarsi very long 

 and thick. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures and stigma 

 fuscous; the top of the second cubital cellule is as wide as 

 the space bounded by the first recurrent and the second 

 transverse cubital nervures. Abdomen shining, smooth ; 

 the basal segment above, with a deep wide somewhat 

 triangular depression, but with the apex rounded ; on the 

 apex of the basal segment is a yellow line, intersected 

 by two square black marks, the second, third, and fourth 

 segments bordered with yellow, which is dilated at the 

 sides. Ventral segments strongly and closely punctured, 

 lined with yellow at the apices and covered with long 

 white hair. 



The 6 is similar; but with the yellow markings larger; 

 there is a curved yellow mark on the mesonotum near the 

 scutellum and two long narrow ones down the sides ; the 

 yellow line behind the eyes much larger ; that on the 

 scutellum much larger and dilated widely in the middle at 

 the apex ; the yellow on the anterior four tibiae and tarsi 

 more extended ; and the yellow bands on the abdomen 

 are broader above and beneath. 



Anthophora Rothneyi, sp. nov. 



Nigra, longe pallide hirta ; abdominc pallide argentco- 

 fasciato ; scapo antennarum, mandibidarum basi oreqice 

 flavis ; clypeo nigro-bimaculato ; alis hyalinis, nervis nigris. 

 2. Long. 10 — 11 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head densely covered with hoary hairs, longest and 

 thickest on the top ; the labrum and clypeus yellow, 

 obscurely punctured ; the two marks on the clypeus are 

 dilated at the apex and reach from the base to shortly 



