XVII.—Natal Bees 
by 
T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 
MorGANIA CHUBBI, Sp. nov. 
2. Length about 6°5 mm., expanse 13:5 mm.;_ black, including 
legs, mandibles, antenne and tegule, except that the fourth antennal 
joint is red on outer side ; wings long, dusky hyaline, the apex broadly 
infuscated, stigma and nervures black; face with appressed silver- 
white hair; antennal basin depressed ; front strongly punctured, but 
shining between the punctures ; mesothorax shining, very strongly but 
not very densely punctured; scutellum elevated, bigibbous, strongly 
punctured ; metathorax bare in middle, but laterally clothed with 
white hair ; pleura with a very broad transverse band of silvery hair, 
prolonged downward anteriorly and posteriorly ; tegule large; tibie 
and tarsi with silvery hair; spurs ferruginous ; abdomen sub-globose, 
shining, the first segment impunctate ; a patch of silvery hair on each 
side of first segment, and hind-margins of second to fourth with bands 
of silvery hair, that on second broadly interrupted in middle ; pygidial 
plate coarsely punctured and irregularly longitudinally ridged. 
Bellair, Natal, 13th January, 1919, “ visiting hole in vertical bank 
on side of road” (E. C. Chubb). 
MorGANIA BARKERI, Sp. nov. 
_ 9. Length about 7°5 mm.; black, with the apical half of 
mandibles dark reddish. Similar to J. chubbi, but differing thus: 
face narrower; antennz somewhat longer, entirely black, the joints 
very distinct ; mesothorax more finely and closely punctured; meta- 
thorax hairy almost to middle; pleura thinly hairy, but without a 
distinct transverse band ; tarsi longer; spurs black ; wings uniformly 
fuliginous ; second recurrent nervure joining second sub-marginal cell 
some distance before end (meeting second transversocubital in J. 
chubbi) ; abdomen rather narrower. 
Durban, Natal, 9th March, 1918 (C. N. Barker). 
The species of Morgania are described by Friese under Omachtes, 
but F. Smith’s generic name Morgania has priority. The species now 
described differ from the majority by the black abdomen and legs, 
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