the Apidae in the British Museum. 455 



An interesting new species of the subgenus Meganomia is 

 described below. 



Key to Ethiopian Nomia in the British Museum. 



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1. (4) Tegulse enlarged. 



2. (3) Tegumeiit black and i-ed, median seg- 



ment evenly punctured ; wings 



clear hyaline. Length 10 mm. . . m7oijc«, Smith. (White 



3. (2) Tegument black, median segment [Nile, t.) 



basally impunctate, dull ; wings 

 subhyaline, more fuscous towards 

 apex. Length 8 mm tegnlata, Smith. (Sierra 



4. (1) TeguUe normal. [Leoue, t. ; Durban.) 



5. (6) Tegument of abdomen red, with some 



black markings basally. Length 



9 mm fausta, Smith. (Natal, 



6. (5) Tegument of abdomen otherwise [t.) 



coloured. 



7. (8) Abdomen with broad apical tegu- 



mentary fascias, yellowish white ; 

 facial pubescence whitish. Length 

 9 mm Candida, Smith. (Sierra 



Leone, t., Lagos {Strachan) ; Salisbury [G. A. K. 



Marshall) ; Nyasalaud (Neave, Stamius) ; British 



East Africa {Neave, H. C. Wood) ; Abyssinia, 



Harrar {Kristensen).) 



8. (7) Abdomen with pubescent fascite, face 



with fulvous-golden pubescence. 



9. (10) Apices of tergites only laterally pubes- 



cent ; wings clear hyaline : a small 



slender species. Length 6 mm aurifrons, Smith. (Si- 



10. (9) Tergites 2-5 with broad apical fasciae [erra Leone, t.) 



of golden pubescence ; wings slightly 

 fuscous : a larger, more robust 



species. Length 10 mm fulvoMrta, Smith. (Si- 

 erra Leone, t., Lagos (J. A, de Gaye).) 



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1. (2) Tegulae enlarged; black, abdomen very 



coarsely punctured, with pale pubes- 

 cent fasciae. Length 8 mm anomala (W. F. Kirby). 



(Socotra, t., Mozambique, and Durban {Muir), 

 c5' 2 ; N. Rhodesia {Silverlock}, cS $ ; Abyssinia, 

 Harrar {Kristensen).) 



2. (1) Tegulae normal. 



3. (8) Tegument of abdomen for the most 



part red. 



4. (5) Hind legs simple, not swollen, the 



tibiae conspicuously serrate on the 

 outer side ; wings subfuscous, the 



basal half paler. Length 9 mm. . . serratula, Smith. (Na- 

 tal, t., Nyasaland {Neave).) 



5. (4) Hind legs abnormally swollen. 



6. (7) Wings dark fuscous ; hind tibise 



