1946] African Anthophora 25 
shorter than in the S. African form. Thus it seems probable 
that we should recognize several subspecies of this widely dis- 
tributed bee, and that atrocincta Lep. is not applicable to any 
of those now before me. Which is the true or typical A . plumipes 
we do not know, but if the Fabricius type is found, that point 
can be settled. It is quite possible that the South African form 
(from Huguenot in the west to Zanzibar in the east) may need 
a new subspecific name. 
Anthophora spinicauda, new species 
$ . Length about 10 mm.; black, with the face-markings 
very pale yellow, including clypeus (with only a small spot on 
each side), narrow supraclypeal band, not angulate above, 
lateral marks filling space between clypeus and eye, sending 
a line a short distance up eye margin, stripe on scape, labrurn 
and base of mandibles; face shining, but clypeus dull in middle; 
flagellum short for a male, very obscurely brownish beneath; 
hair of head and thorax above light fulvous, not mixed with 
black, of cheeks pure white, of sides of thorax greyish; wings 
slightly dusky; legs black, hair of middle and hind legs entirely 
black, but front femora with a long fringe of pure white hair; 
abdomen broad, covered with ferruginous hair, with an appear- 
ance of broad pallid bands; apex with a single median spine. 
The eyes are dark red. 
Tanganyika Territory: Morogoro, June 1 (A. Loveridge). 
Superficially like A. vestita Smith, but differing in the black hair 
of the legs and the apical spine of abdomen. By the black-haired 
middle and hind legs this resembles the much larger A . africana 
Friese. A. vestitula Ckll. was described from the female, with 
black hair on hind legs, but the hair of the thorax is quite dif- 
ferently coloured. 
Anthophora malelana, new species 
2 . Similar to A. ogilviei Ckll., the face marks as in the male 
of that species, but with the widely separated quadrate black 
marks not at all produced downward at inner apical corner; 
the apical yellow band of clypeus is very wide, and the lateral 
face marks slope downward from the upper end next to corner 
of clypeus, but on approaching the orbit, send a pointed pro- 
jection upward; the labrurn is very large, and the basal spots 
are pale; the scape is light red (a unique feature), with a small 
