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Crocisa plumifera, Brauns. 
? .—Matroosberg, Ceres Div., 4500 ft., Nov. 1917 
(Lightfoot). South African Museum. 
This agrees with Brauns’s description ; his type came from 
Willowmore. 
Epeolus amabilis, Gerstaecker. 
? .—Henkries, Bushmanland, Oct. 1911 (Lighifoot). 
Agrees with specimens from Willowmore (Brauns) and 
one from “Cape of Good Hope” (F. Smith collection, 
labelled variegatus). 
Epeolus amabilis rhodesicus, subsp. n. 
? —Length a little over 8 mm. 
Robust, black, with the clypeus except middle and upper 
part, labrum, mandibles, prothorax with tubercles, ends of 
the large axillar teeth, and two spots on the strongly bi- 
gibbous scutellum, ferruginous; pale markings due to hair 
dull white ; scape red at base and apex; flagellum black, 
red at base beneath. In amabdilis the interrupted apical hair- 
band on second abdominal segment has its upper edge straight, 
but in rhodesicus the ends of the two sections of the band 
are swollen or bulbous, while the anterior lateral patches on 
the same segment are large and rounded. All the femora in 
rhodesicus are mainly black ; in amadilis the anterior femora 
are red. 
Salisbury, S. Rhodesia (D. Dodds). South African 
Museum, 
Possibly a distinct species, but the characters are slight. 
The mesopleura has a red patch, but is not entirely red as in 
EE. incrassatus, M.-Waldo, and while rhodesicus and incras- 
satus are evidently allied, it does not appear probable that 
they are sexes of one species. 
Potyetossa, Friese. 
Friese published this genus in 1909, basing it on four 
South African species, known only in the male sex. 
P. capensis, Fr., is herewith designated the type. In 1912, 
Friese described the female of capensis. Polyglossa consists 
of bees having the appearance of Andrena, but with only two 
submarginal cells, and the tongue formed as in Colletes. I 
have never seen any of the original species, and am by no 
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