the A[nd£e //* the British Museum. 401 



The specific name '^ fu/vicornis^^ being already in use in 

 this genus for a species described by Morawitz (1895), it has 

 been necessary to rename Friese's species. 



TetraJonia sheffieldij sp. n. 



$. Nigra, fulvo-hirta ; labro clypeo capiteque post oculos palh'de 

 hirsutis ; pleuris segmento mediauo pedibusque fusco pubescent i- 

 bus ; mandibulis (basi excepto), articulis -1-12 llagelli iufra, 

 tegulisque ferrugineis ; alis subhyalinis. 

 Long. 13 mm. 



? . Bhicl^j almost entirely covered with fulvous pubes- 

 cence, long on head and thorax, shorter on abdomen ; clypeus, 

 labrum, and t!ie area boliind the eyes clothed with white 

 pubescence ; pleura, sides of truncation of median segment, 

 and legs clothed with dark fuscous pubescence. Abdominal 

 sternites bare, with s|)arse apical fasciai of ferruginous hair. 

 Mandibles apically, joints 4-12 of flagellum, and tegula 

 ferruginous. The whole uniformly covered with medium- 

 sized punctures, sternite 2 with a distinct transversely striate 

 area at base, the area being marked oflf from the rest of the 

 segment by a bilobed suture. Wings subhyaline. 



Length 13 mm. 



(^ . Similar to ? ; antennu3 short for a (J, barely reaching 

 scutellum. 



NyaSALAND: Mlanje, iii.-vi. (1013), ? ? , 3 c? c? (tjpfi). 

 Uganda Puotectokate : Semliki Plains, 2,200 it., 2 ? ? ; 

 Eastern Mbale District, 3700-3'JOO ft., 1 S- PoRTUGUESK 

 East Africa: Valley of Kola River, 1 ? {S. A. Ntave). 

 y. KhoDESIA : The Lonely ^Jine (i^/. Harold Swale), 2 ? $ . 



Var. $ . fen-ugineipesy wv. no v. 



Form re typicse similis, sed diflert tibiis tarsisque poslicis ferrugineo- 

 pubescentibus. 



$ . Similar to the typical form, but differs in liaving the 

 posterior tibiaj and tarsi clothed with ferruginous pubescence, 



5 ? ?. 



Uganda: Entebbe {C. C. Gowdey) (type). N. Rho- 

 desia: \)Q\\\\yA. {Silverloch ColL). Brit. E. AFRICA : Mai- 

 sublt (/?. J. Stordy). 



Dr. Harold Swale, who has rece:itly collected specimens of 

 the typical form in IS'orthern Rhodesia, has made some 

 interesting observations on their habits. He writes as 

 follows: — "An interesting bee is the one I send now. It 



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