new Species of Apidae. 495 



base of mandibles, the clypeus at sides, the area behind the 

 eyes, mesopleura sparsely, and lateral angles of median 

 segment profusely, clothed with griseous pubescence, more 

 profuse at the sides ; ventral scopa griseous. Pubescence on 

 the inner side of all the tarsi faintly fulvous. 



Wings fusco-violaceous, hyaline at apex. 



Postscutellum dull, im punctate, the whole otherwise weakly 

 punctured ; clypeus extremely short, truncate, with a broad 

 blunt tubercle medially, the surface of the truncation shining; 

 mandibles arched, broadest at apex, which is faintly 4-toothed ; 

 labrum rugose, a broad longitudinal median furrow, shining, 

 almost impunctate. 



Length 15 mm. 



<$ . Similar to ? ; anterior tarsi dilated, pale testaceous ; 

 anterior coxae simple ; terminal joint of antennas spatulate, 

 acute. 



llab. Belgian CONGO : Sankisia, viii., ix., 1911 (Dr. 

 Bequaert), 4 £ $ , 4 $ <$ , type in Congo Museum, co-types 

 in British Museum ; Lualaba Kiver, 2500-4000 it. (6". A. 

 Neave), 1 <$ . 



Nomioides, Schenck. 



Xomioides pulchella, Schenck, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau, xxi., xxii. 



p. 812 (1867-8) (1870). <$ $ . 

 Ceratina cerea, Nurse, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxx. p. 152 (1902). J . 



Nomioides curvilineata. 



Ceratina curvilineata, Cam. Bombay Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. 

 p. 1003 (1907). 



Allodape, Lep. 



The three species described as Prosopis by Colonel Bingham 

 are all referable to the above genus, two of the species having 

 been previously described by Frederick Smith. All three 

 species were in the Distant Collection, now the property of 

 the British Museum. Their synonymy stands as follows : — 



Allodape variegata, Sm. Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 229. no. 5 



(1854). 

 Prosopis sandaracata, Bingk. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xii. p. 49 



(1903). 



The types of both these species are from Natal. 



Allodape corduta, Sm. Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 98. no. 2 (1879). 

 Prosopis pemix, Bingk. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xii. p. 49 (1903). 



Type of A. cordata from Cape of Good Hope, A. perni.v 

 from Natal. 



