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PROSOPIS BEVISI, sp. noy. 
3. Length a little over 6 mm.; black, with legs, sides and extreme 
base of first abdominal segment red; entire face below antenne red 
(probably orange in life), including supraclypeal mark (quadrate, 
broader than long), and with lateral marks ending in a point on orbit 
at about upper level of antennal sockets ; madibles and labrum red ; 
seape red, but the short thick flagellum black, reddish only at base ; 
a well developed keel mesad of each antenna; front and vertex 
minutely rugose ; mesothorax dull and densely punctured ; prothorax 
and tubercles red, but rest of thorax black; base of metathorax 
shining, with strong short plice; pleura. dull and rugulose; tegule 
testaceous ; wings hyaline, very faintly dusky, stigma and nervures 
dark brown ; first recurrent nervure joining first submarginal cell at 
end ; second recurrent meeting outer transverso-cubital ; abdomen 
broad, shining, with white lateral hair-bands on first segment, but not 
on the others; surface extremely finely sculptured, appearing rather 
sericeous ; margin of second segment elevated. 
Umbilo, 22nd Feb., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1120). 
Resembles P. rubriplagiata, Cam. = P. braunsi, Alfk. (this 
synonymy due to Dr. Brauns in litt.), but easily distinguished by the 
entirely red legs, lack of distinct (visible under lens) punctures on 
abdomen, different base of metathorax, short and broad supraclypeal 
mark, short and dark flagellum, etc. In Friese’s 1911 table it runs 
nearest to P. braunsi. It agrees with none of the species more 
recently described by Alfken and Strand. 
THRINCHOSTOMA MILLARI, Cockerell. 
9. Umbilo, 10th & 17th Oct., 1915 (L. Bevis). 
NomIA MEGALEPIS, Cockerell. 
9. Unmbilo, 25th Oct., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1427). 
In Ann. Durban Mus,., vol. i, p. 463, the “following bee” referred 
to under Crocisa arcuata is of course Nomia nigripes (p. 464), which 
did follow in the MS. as originally written. 
Hatictus gucunbus, Smith. 
Q. Umbilo, 10th Oct., 1915 (L. Bevis; 1708). Smaller and less 
robust than usual, 
