Records of Bees. 67 



straiglit, reddisli above. The second specimen, manifestly 

 conspecific, has at the apex of the abdomen a pair of short 

 black spines on one side and a single one on the other; it is 

 asymmetrical and evidently abnormal. This male is also 

 very like O. combusta, but separated by the much paler 

 wings, red hair on first abdominal segment, form of apical 

 teetli, &c. 



Bab. Portuguese West Africa, long. E. 15° 05', lat. S. 

 12° 44', alt. 1360 metres, at flowering mint, jEolanthus sp., 

 Dec. 1906 (middle of rainy season) ; two of each sex collected 

 by Dr. F. Creigliton Wellman« 



Gronoceras hengueUensis, sp. n. 



? . — Lengtii about 16|- mm. 



Black, including legs and antennw ; hair of head, thorax, 

 and legs brown-black, except that there is a little pallid hair 

 about the bases of the antenna-, and the hair of the thorax 

 above is dark cofFee-colour on the mesothorax, becoming- 

 bright fox-red on hind part of scutellum and upper part of 

 metathorax ; the hair of the first two abdominal segments 

 above is bright fox-red, but on the others blaek, the hind 

 margins of tlie segments narrowly whitish ; ventral scopa red 

 in the middle and black at the sides, but entirely black on the 

 last two segments. Wings dusky hyaline, the apex clouded ; 

 hind spurs red ; mandibles 4-dentate, the third tooth trun- 

 cate, the fourth very small. 



^ . — Length about 13 mm. 



Hair of face yellowish white, of cheeks below white, of 

 vertex and occiput brown-black, of thorax and abdomen 

 brown-black, without red; whitish at sides of abdomen 

 beneath ; apex of abdomen with a large stiff tuft or brush of 

 long black hairs ; abdomen above practically bare, the hind 

 margins of the segments dark reddisli ; clypeus densely 

 punctured, with a narrow shining median raised line ; middle 

 of mandibles with a large tubercle beneath (in WeUinaniw'xih. 

 a similar process, but hardly so large) ; labrum broadly 

 rounded at apex ; anterior tarsi formed in general as in 

 Wellmanif but the apical joints are red, not black, and the 

 basitarsus is greyish, with no anterior ferruginous line, but 

 with a broad cream-coloured stripe down the anterior margin, 

 and continued on to the second joint ; the fringe of hair on 

 the inner anterior edge is pale reddish instead of black, and 

 the long posterior fringe extends as far as the penultimate 

 joint, and is fuscous for its ui)per half, ferruginous with a 

 white base for its lower, i. e. from the last quarter of the 



