The bees of the genusAnthophoraLatreille 1803 of the West Indies are revised for the first time. Four species previously known from the Lesser and Greater Antilles are redescribed, one from the Bahamas has already been adequately described and two species, one from Haiti and one from St Eustatius, are herein described as new. The respective species areAnthophora atrataCresson 1865,A. footeiCrawford 1914,A. hilarisSmith 1879,A. tricolor(Fabricius 1775),A. bahamensisBrooks 1988,A. hispaniolan. sp. andA. eustatiensisn. sp. All known distributional, floral and biological data are given, as well as a key to species.