44 New Records of Natal Bees 
half, and without lateral blackish marks. This is probably a distinct 
race, but the type locally is Port Natal, and the specimens collected 
by Mr. Bevis represent the typical form as described by Smith. 
ALLODAPE MAURULA, Sp. nov. 
$ (Type). Length a little over 5 mm. ; shining black, with clavate 
abdomen, narrowed basally; hair very scanty, and white; clypeus 
creamy-white, equally broad above and below, but constricted in 
middle; small cuneiform lateral marks between lower half of clypeus 
and eye; eyes prominent, converging below, the face very narrow ; 
scape with a white stripe in front, flagellum entirely black; mesothorax 
shining, but scutellum dullish; tubercles cream-colour, but rest of 
thorax black; tegule hyaline; wings faintly dusky, stigma and 
nervures fuscous; legs black, with the tarsi cream-colour, reddened 
apically ; abdomen black, without markings, hair at apex white. 
?. Length about 6 mm., rather slender; white clypeal area with 
upper half broader than lower; no lateral marks ; antenne entirely 
black ; tarsi black basally and ferruginous apically. 
Type from Durban, 24th Feb., 1915 (H. M. Millar; 1507). Females 
from Umbilo, 22nd Feb., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1120), and 18th April, 1915 
(L. Bevis; 1563). 
Very like A. lacteipennis, Brauns, but the female of that species 
has only the upper edge of the clypeus white. A. albipennis, Friese, 
is also related, but has milk-white wings, and is distinctly smaller. 
ALLODAPE CORDATA, Smith. 
Umbilo, 6th & 18th Dec., 18th & 28th April (L. Bevis). Widen- 
ham, 13th Dec., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1481). 
Of the four Widenham specimens, three have the hind margins of 
abdominal segments more or less reddened. 
ALLODAPE STELLARUM, Ceckerell. 
Females from Umbilo, 5th & 18th April (L. Bevis), and Widenham, 
17th Dec., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1484). 
Male from Widenham, 13th Dec., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1481). The 
male is new; it has the clypeus white except a small black spot on 
each lateral margin near the middle. 
