Aculeate Hymenoptera in the Oxford Museum. 877 



segments. Legs stout and powerful, the tibiae furnislied with strong 

 spines. 



Length 9 13 mm. Exp. 2G mm. 



Described from a single example. 



NOTOGONIA DiXEYi, form n. 



Natal : The Bluff, near Durban : Aug. 16, 1905 {F. A. 



Bhiey). 



9 . Black, the scape of the antennae, and the tarsi of the legs dull 

 red, the claw-joint of the latter more or less blackish above ; on the 

 anterior legs the red spreads to the apex of the tibiae. Head, thorax 

 (except the median segment), and abdomen smooth unpunctured ; 

 on the head the inner orbits of the eyes and the sides of the clypeus 

 clothed with dense golden pubescence, very rich and shining in 

 certain lights; wings fuscous with a rich purple effulgence; the 

 apical margins of the abdominal segments above with transverse, 

 minutely pubescent, whitish narrow bands ; pygidial area well 

 defined covered with stiff black hairs. Head : the anterior margin 

 of the clypeus with a few coarse punctures ; the fiagellum of the 

 antennae dull and opaque, 2nd and 3rd joints subequal, each 

 twice the length of the basal joint. Thorax : massive, the meso- 

 notum slightly convex, with a short longitudinal carina on each 

 side above the tegulae ; median segment long rounded above, finely, 

 but irregularly, transversely striate, abruptly truncate posteriorly, 

 the apex above slightly projecting in the middle above at the edge 

 of the truncation ; legs with strong short spines on the tibiae and 

 tarsi, the tibial calcaria long, on the posterior tibiae as long as the 

 basal joint of the tarsi, claws long and curved. Abdomen short, 

 not longer than the thorax, moderately massive, basal ventral 

 segment with a preapical, transverse, strongly marked groove, 

 2nd segment with a basal broad shallow depression on each side 

 of a bluntly raised medial carina that does not extend to its apical 

 margin. 



Length $ 16 mm. Exp. 26 mm. 



Described from a single example. Figured in Dr. Long- 

 staff's " Butterfly Hunting in Many Lands," Plate II, fig. 4 

 (1912). 



NoTE.^ — The name given in the manuscript of this memoir was 

 " vafra" but a label on the type specimen records " dixeiji," and not 

 '■^vafra." Dr. Longstaff tells me that he knew of Col. Bingham's 

 intention to alter his MSS, to " dixeyi." — E. B. P. 



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