24 Psyche [March-June 
on first three tergites, but fourth (except at base), fifth and 
sixth covered with greyish-white hair, and long white hair at 
side of fifth and sixth; middle and hind legs with black hair, 
anterior tibiae and tarsi on front with white hair; tegulae red; 
wings dilute fuliginous. Scape all black, flagellum long. Face 
broad, face-markings orange, consisting of a long transverse 
supraclypeal mark, pointed at each end, a band on each side 
next to clypeus, a reversed T-shaped mark on clypeus, the stem 
with the end very slender, reaching top of clypeus, but the lower 
end greatly broadened (with a keel in middle), the lateral arms 
short; labrum orange, the apical margin dark and the basal 
spots small; mandibles pale at base; cheeks with long pure 
white hair. The anterior part of thorax has long white hair 
below. 
Cameroons: Metet (G. Schwab). 
It looks exactly like a female A. advena Smith, but the face 
marks at once distinguish it, and it is very different from male 
A. advena. It is closely allied to A. albocaudata Dours, but is 
more robust, with different face-markings. 
Anthophora plumipes (Fabricius) 
Cape Province: Willowmore, January 1 , 1904 ( H . Brauns). 
According to Dalle Torre’s Catalogue this was said to come 
from India, which is impossible. F. Sirjth says it is in the Banks 
Collection at the British Museum. I presume that this is the 
actual type, and it should be examined and described in modern 
terms. I did not see it when working at the British Museum, as 
the Banks Collection is kept separate, and it did not occur to 
me to look for the type of A. plumipes. Dours treats A. atro- 
cincta Lepeletier as a valid species, with A . plumipes as a syn- 
onym, in spite of the long priority of the latter. He gives 
Caffraria as the locality. However, Lepeletier described A. 
atrocincta from a male from Senegal, with white face-marks, 
and scape yellow in front. The South African form has a light 
mark on the male scape. Supposing that the South African bee 
could be distinguished, at least as a subspecies, from true A. 
atrocincta , I thought perhaps the name A. domicola Ckll., based 
on a bee from Benguella, might be applicable, but this is a 
smaller species, and the very short scape is entirely black. 
Male A. plumipes from Tenke in the Katanga has only a 
small light mark on the scape, and the labrum is conspicuously 
