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[March-June 
AFRICAN BEES OF THE GENUS ANTHOPHORA 1 
By T. D. A. Cockerell 
Boulder, Colorado 
The bees recorded below were kindly sent by Dr. J. Bequaert 
and are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Anthophora regalis, new species 
9 . Length about 14 mm.; very robust, black, the abdominal 
tergites 1 and 4 having broad bands of brilliant purple; hair of 
head and thorax mixed greenish and black, on thorax beneath 
and on cheeks white, the occiput with a fringe of bright green 
hairs, with longer black hairs behind them; face markings yel- 
lowish-white; clypeus with a reversed T, the stem slender, but 
broadening before the arms, which do not reach lateral borders; 
supraclypeal area with a small triangular mark; labrum broad, 
with laterobasal black spots and a narrow black margin, apical 
part of labrum brownish; mandibles broadly pale at base; 
flagellum obscurely brownish beneath; tegulae black; wings 
rather dilute fuliginous; front and middle legs with pale pubes- 
cence, hind legs with black, except a sharply defined pubescent 
band along the whole length of hind tibia behind; descending 
face of first tergite with pale hair; fifth tergite with a large 
transverse bilobed patch of grey hair, but otherwise with black 
hair. 
Cameroons: Metet (G. Schwab). 
Related to A. expleta Vachal, but that has the bands pale blue 
becoming white laterally. A . vivida Smith, type 9 , has the hind 
tibiae all black, but a variety has a tuft of white at apex behind; 
A. vivida has emerald green bands, and no band on first tergite. 
Anthophora armata Friese 
Kenya: Taveta (A. Loveridge) . $ . 
Anthophora torrida F. Smith 
Tanganyika Territory: Kilosa, Dec. 11, 1920 (A. Love- 
ridge). Kenya: Mombasa (G. M. Allen and G. Brooks). 
Liberia: Monrovia, July (/. Bequaert). 
These are females. I have examined Smith’s type. 
1 Published by a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Har- 
vard College. 
