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clouded, the iiervures are black • the anterior tibiae have on their outer 
edge a vitta, nearly reaching the tip, and the intermediate and poste¬ 
rior tibiae have an abbreviated vitta on their outer margin at base. 
All the markings are yellowish-white. I have not seen the % of this 
species. 
3. A. maculatum, Smith. 
Anthidium maculatum, Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat. ii, p. 216, (1854.) 
“ Male. Length 5 lines.—Black, the entire insect thinly covered 
with cinereous pubescence; the clypeus, the face on each side, and the 
mandibles exteriorly of a yellowish-white; also a minute spot on the 
vertex above the eyes. Thorax, the scutellum has a narrow line on 
each side of its posterior margin, a spot on the tegulae in front, and a 
minute one at the base of the anterior tibiae above yellow ; all the tarsi 
have a dense white pubescence, and the basal joint of the anterior and 
posterior pairs is pale yellow. Abdomen^ the first to the fifth segment 
have each four subtriangular yellow spots, the sixth has only two oblique 
spots, the lateral margins having a curved spine, the seventh is armed 
with three spines on its apical margin, the central one being the 
shortest. 
Hah. —Mexico.” 
Unknown to me. 
Section 2. 
4. A. notatum, Latr. 
Anthidium notatum, Latr., Ann. Mus. Hist. Hat. 13, ]). 48 and 231 ; St. Farg. 
Hym. ii, p. 370, % . 
Female .—Head large, wider than the thorax, black, shining, rather 
densely and profoundly punctured; the face on each side, and an un¬ 
interrupted transverse line on the posterior margin of the vertex, yel¬ 
low j lateral margins of the clypeus broadly yellowish-ferruginous. An¬ 
tennae black. Thorax black, densely and profoundly punctured, subo¬ 
paque ; anterior margin with an oblong oblique spot on each side, the 
tubercles, two rather large ovate spots on the posterior margin of the 
scutellum and a smaller spot on each side above, all yellow tinged with 
ferruginous. Wings fuliginous, with a few subhyaline spots towards 
the tip. Legs yellowish-ferruginous, somewhat obfuscated exteriorly 
and clothed with short pale pubescence. Abdomen short, very convex 
above, shining, black, regularly and deeply punctured, the punctures 
smaller towards the tip; a rounded spot on the extreme side of the 
