22Q Die Bienen Afrikas nach dem Stande unserer heutigen Kenntnisse. ^ij 



Crocisa meHpes Vach. ? 

 1903 Crocisa meripes Vachal, 5?, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 380. 



Sd?. C. calceatae similis, differt: prototarsis, mesosterno et ventre nigro tantum pilosis. 



6 valvula analis ventralis convexiuscula pubescens, valvula dorsalis inter angulos sinuata. 



I ? du Rio Mouny, print. 98 (BOUYSSOU); 2 ? de La Kungii et Kinschassa, Congo beige (HAAS et 

 Waelbrock); I ? et I d des chutes de Samlia (MOCQUERYS), Mus. Bru.xelles. 



Kongo. 



Dr. L. SCHULTZE brachte 2 ? aus der Wüste Kalahari mit, von Kooa und Khakhca. Weitere Exemplare 

 liegen mir von Ostafrika (Ivigonsera, Ikutha), Nord-Transvaal (Shilouvane) und Eritrea vor, von Westafrika 

 (Togo und Ondonga). 



Crocisa qtiinquefasciata Sm. 



1879 Crocisa quinquefasciata Smith, 2, in: Descr. new spec. Hymen., p. 108. 



1891 „ suhconügua Saussure, (J?, in: Grandidibr, Eist. Madagascar, T. XX, Part. 1, p. 82, tab. 3, fig. 17. 



$. Length 5 lines (= 10Y3 mm). Black, decorated with spots and markings of white pubescence; thc 

 abdomen with fine narrow fasciae of white pubescence, which are slightly interrupted in the middle. The 

 head with white pubescence. The prothorax, three spots on the mesothorax anteriorly, two posteriorly, a narrow 

 line over the tegulae, the sides of the metathorax and a large patch beneath the wings, of white pubescence; 

 the legs have a short white pubescence; wings fuscous, with hyaline spots in the marginal and submarginal 

 cells; the hinder wings hyaUne at their base; the scutellum produced over the base of the abdomen; its 

 posterior margin deeply notched. The fasciae on the abdomen recurved up the lateral margin s. 



Hab. Madagascar. (Nicht wie D. T. von Madeira!) 



Anhang. 

 Crocisa calcarata Vach. 

 1903 Crocisa calcarata Vachal, cf, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 382. 



„$. Squamis tricolori-caeruleis ubertim ornata; scutellum 4-notatum, bis in pteromatibus, bis in disco. 

 Segmentum i vestitum, margine apicali anguloque producto ejus tantum nudis; segmentum 2 fascia completa 

 media in medio attenuata, laterahter antice inflata. Segmenta 3 — 5 fascia lata apicali interrupta. Segmenti 

 medialis latera praeter solitum nigro-villosa. Articulus antennarum 3 fere brevior quam 4. 



c^. Femur posticum subtus post medium valde calcaratum. Valvula dorsalis truncata, ventralis in medio 

 basis triangulariter glabrata. L. 12 — 13 mm. 



I S de Chanchamayo (Afr. austr.?). 



Nota. — Au dernier moment l'auteiur apprend que Chanchamayo est pres de Lima, au Perou. L'in- 

 dication de cette localite est-elle exacte?" 



In Peru dürfte schwerhch eine derartig gefärbte Crocisa vorkommen?! Fr. 



Crocisa forbesii Kirby. 



1900 Crocisa forbesii Kibby, ?, in: Bull. Liverp. Mus., Vol. III, p. 21. 



1903 „ „ Kirby, 5?, in: Nat. Hist. of Sokotra, p. 251, tab. 16, fig. 10. 



1906 Nomia „ Kom, 2i, in: Denkschr. Akad. Wien, Bd. LXXI, p. 179; Taf. IV, Fig. 2 u. 4. 



Nach Kohl (1906) eine Nomia scutellaris var.! 

 Sokotra. 



