Records of Bees. 205 
two segments, on the third and fourth segments the hair is 
mainly dark chocolate, becoming black in the apical region, 
but segments 2 to 4 have thin white hair-bands ; apical plate 
shaped like a broad leaf, with an acute point; first four 
dorsal segments rugoso-punctate, but glistening; fifth 
shining, with rather sparse weak punctures; fifth ventral 
segment polished, with a conspicuous tuft of hair at each 
posterior corner. 
Cape Town, 1914 (F. Poly). Two males. South African 
Museum. 
The hind legs resemble those of Nomia. (Friese says of 
P. capensis, “Femur verdickt, Tibie kantig”’; his figure 
shows nothing unusual.) Such modifications of the legs, or 
more or less similar ones, occur in the Diphaglossine; thus, 
indications of the tibial lamella may be seen in Nomiocolletes 
Joeryenseni (Fr.), from the Argentine, which Friese actually 
described as a Nomia. The apical plate of the Nomiocolletes 
3 is broadly rounded or subtruncate, not at all pointed. 
The point is also entirely lacking in Pasiphaé, which has two 
submarginal cells. 
Polyglossa peringueyi, sp. n. 
? .—Length about 13 mm. 
Very much like P. hetervdowxa, except for the usual sexual 
differences, and with the same venation, though the wings 
are strongly suffused with brown. The hair of head and 
thorax is ochreous-tinted throughout, and is strongly fulvous 
on scutellum. The vertex has long black hair mixed with 
the reddish, and there are dark hairs in the scutellar region. 
There is a marked discrepancy in the mouth-parts, which 
are extended and clearly visible. The labial palpi have the 
first joint very stout, and much longer than the others. 
The maxillary palpi have the first three joints relatively 
large, the last three small, the second and third equal and 
longer than the first. I cannot see any tongue at all. 
Clypeus very densely punctate, with a broad smooth 
median line; inner tooth of mandibles not salient, but 
separated by a deep groove; flagellum red beneath, but 
black above ; front dull, but with shining lateral depressed 
fovee, about the width of an ocellus; mesothorax and 
scutellum very rough, densely and coarsely punctured; area 
of metathorax broad triangular, the basal half rugose ; 
anterior tibize black, with a red area in front; hair of legs 
mainly ochreous, bright fulvous on inner side of tibiz and 
tarsi, mainly dark chocolate or black on outer sides of tarsi 
