46 New Records of Natal Bees. 
HALICTUS RHODASPIS, sp. nov. 
@. Length about 10 mm.; black, including the antenne, mandibles 
and tarsi; hair of face, cheeks, pleura and metathorax greyish-white, 
of vertex and mesothorax pale fulvous, of scutellum and middle of 
post-scutellum bright ferruginous ; ‘upper part of clypeus (except the 
mnargin) opaque and very densely rugosopunctate, below this are 
larger, distinct punctures, while the swollen lower marginal area is 
polished ; vertex glistening; mesothorax very finely and closely 
punctured, shining between the punctures; area of metathorax 
covered with fine vermiform wrinkles, without radiating plice ; tegule 
red; wings faintly dusky, stigma and nervures dark brown; legs 
with pale hair; hind spur minutely serrate; abdomen shining, very 
minutely punctured; a broadly interrupted band of ochreous 
tomentum at hase of second segment, and a very broad entire band at 
base of third; hair at apex pale fulvous; venter with long pollen- 
carrying hair. 
Umbilo, 17th Oct,. 1915 (L. Bevis; 1709). 
In Meade-Waldo’s table of African Halictus this runs to H. capicola, 
Cam., which is smaller, with the clypeus differently sculptured. It 
agrees with none of the species described by Cameron, Friese or 
Vachal. It is larger than /H. diversus, Sm., and differs in having 
the area of metathorax sharply limited posteriorly, the flagellum all 
black, ete. From H. diversiformis, Ckll., it is known by the red 
tegule, dark stigma, ete. 
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