298 
Anthidium vigilans u. Anthidium waltlii. 
at the base, Stigma piceous. — Length of the body 4—4 1 /* lines 
(= 8V 2 —9V 2 mm lg.) , , \ , | 1 
var. — Abdomen with three black bands.« 
Mount Sinäi (Arabia). 
147. Anthidium vigilans Sm. 
1878. — Anthidium vigilans Smith, d + —' Scient. Res. 2 (l Yarkand miss. 
p. 5; Tab. F. 7. 
»§. — A. atrum, capite thoraceque flavo-variegatis; abdo- 
minis ‘maculis lateralibus flavis; 3 abdominis inflexi lateribus 
fasciculato-pilosis, ano septemdentato. 
— Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured 
and subopaque, tlie abdomen shining and more finely punctured. 
The clypeus, base of the mandibles and a line on the posterior 
margin of the vertex, interrupted in the middle, yellow. A stripe 
on each side of the thorax in front and an interrupted line on 
the posterior margin of the scutellum yellow; the femora at 
their apex beneath and the tibiae and tarsi outside, yellow; 
wings subhyaline, the marginal cell with a fuscous stripe at its 
anterior margin. Abdomen; each segment with a transverse 
yellow lateral macula; beneath, clothed with bright pale fulvous 
pubescence. — Length 5 1 / 4 lines (= 12 mm lg.) 
The 3 is considerably larger than the lemale and is much 
more pubescent, but is marked with yellow in the same manner, 
the yellow stripes on the abdomen being broader and forming 
interrupted bands; the segments have at their lateral margins 
a floccus ot whitish glittering pubescence; the apical segment 
is tridentate, the lateral teeth yellow, the central one smaller 
and black; there is also a tooth at the lateral margins of the 
5. and 6. segments. — Length 7 lines (= 16 mm lg.) 
Hab. — The locality of the male is the neighboroud of 
Yarkand and although the precise locality of the female is not 
ascertained, there is a sufficient general resemblance between 
the sexes to justify uniting them as one species.« 
Ost-Turkestan. 
148. Anthidium waltlii Spin. 
1838. — Anthidium Waltli Spinola, $ — Ann. soc. entom. France VII. p. 520. 
»$. — Long. 4 lign. (= 9 mm), larg. V/% lign. (= 3'/ 2 mm). 
Antennes ferrugineuses, extremite brune, premier article jaune, 
