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over exactly the same spot, and in another thirty seconds was in 

 my possession, for this time my net struck true. 



On July 21st I found a nymph-case clinging to the reeds 

 in the same locality ; and on July 16th I saw a dragonfly 

 which appeared to be another male of this species, but I was 

 unable to capture it. 



(To be continued.) 



NEW AFRICAN BEES. 

 By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Anthophora domicola, sp. no v. 

 ? . Length about 13 mm. ; anterior wing about 10 ; black, with 

 hair of head and thorax above, apical margin of second abdominal 

 segment, and the segments following entirely (except a few black 

 hairs at base of second and third) rufo-fulvous ; hairs of scutellum 

 (except at extreme sides anteriorly), of metathorax, of first abdominal 

 segment and of second except apical margin, black or brown-black ; 

 hair of cheeks and pleura and anterior legs white ; of middle and 

 hind legs black. Closely allied in all respects to A. atrocincta, Lep., 

 but considerably smaller, with the wings pallid, suffused with brown 

 along the veins, the reddish hair not so bright ; and the lateral black 

 areas of the clypeus indented below, the whole shaped like a boot with 

 a sharp toe and a large heavy heel. The black areas of the clypeus 

 are dull and granular, with rather sparse shallow punctures. The 

 pygidial plate has dark hairs at its sides, but there is no black patch 

 on the fifth segment, such as there is in ^. atrocincta. 



Hah. Benguella hinterland. West Africa, January, 1908 ; 

 " from hole in side of mud house " (F. C. Wellman) ; Ekuiva 

 Valley, West Africa, 1907 (F. C. Wellman). The latter speci- 

 men was at flowers of mint, together with A. quadrifasciata, Vill. 



Anthophora ekuivensis, sp. nov. 

 ? . Length about 12 mm. ; superficially just like A. quadri- 

 fasciata, but evidently distinct, by the following characters : man- 

 dibles stouter, only the basal third or less yellow ; labrum with a 

 central yellow lobiform area surrounded by black, and here rather 

 elevated ; median stripe of clypeus thorn-like, not reaching upper 

 border ; no light supraclypeal mark ; tegulas more shining ; hind 

 basitarsus entirely covered with white hair on outer side ; ventral 

 abdominal segments with long hair-fringes, which are fuscous in the 

 middle and white laterally. The wings are dusky and subviolaceous. 



Hab. Ekuiva Valley, West Africa, 1907 (F. C. Wellman). 



Halictus jucundus benguellensis, subsp. nov. 

 2 . Agreeing with H. picutulus, Smith, from Willowmore, Cape 

 Colony (Brauns), except that the wings are strongly dusky, and the 



