2. Anthophora elegans ^HNS.

A. nigra, pube capitis thoracisque nigra, abdomine fasciis quatuor laete caeruleis ornato; tibiis posticis ferrugineo-pubescentibus.

Female. Length 6 lines. Black; the labrum, a narrow line down the middle and another on each side of the clypeus, a minute spot above, it, and the scape in front testaceous yellow, the base of the mandibles of a paler colour; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax: the pubescence black; wings subhyaline, the nervures dark rufofuscous, tegulae obscurely testaceous. Abdomen with four fasciae of brilliant blue, which is changeable, with pearly tints in different lights; the posterior tibiae densely clothed outside with fulvo-ferruginous pubescence; the pubescence inside is black.

Hab. Key Island.