192 Natal Bees 
COoLLETES FUSCONOTUS, Sp. NOV, 
2. Length about 9°5 mm.; black, robust, mandibles obscurely 
reddened in middle, hind tarsi stained with red ; hair of head and 
thorax greyish-white, dorsally pale ochreous, strongly mixed with 
fuscous on vertex, mesothorax and scutellum; clypeus densely 
rugosopunctate all over; labrum smooth and polished, the median 
pit very small; malar space very short, much more than twice as 
broad as long ; flagellum short, dark reddish beneath ; sides of vertex 
shining, but deeply excavated by the broad fovezx ; mesothorax 
densely punctured, except the posterior middle ; area of metathorax 
coarsely reticulate, the apical part polished ; tegule rufotestaceous ; 
wings brownish-hyaline, stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous ; middle 
femora produced to a sub-basal triangular tooth beneath; first 
four abdominal segments with broad greyish-white hair-bands ; first 
segment hairy at base and sides, shining strongly and rather closely 
punctured ; second segment minutely and densely punctured ; hind 
margins of segments reddish. 
Winklespruit, Natal, 3lst December, 1918, two (C. N. Barker). 
Known by the black legs, colour of hair on thorax, and short malar 
space. It runs out at 3 in Friese’s table. C. negligendus (Dalla 
Torre), from Natal, has testaceous nervures and black stigma. 
CoLLETES DURBANENSIS, Sp. nov. 
¢. Length, 85-9 mm.; black, only the mandibles and tarsi red 
apically ; head and thorax above with clear orange-fulvous or 
ferruginous hair, otherwise with pale ochreous tinted hair, white on 
cheeks ; antenne black ; malar space short, about twice as broad as 
long ; mesothorax and scutellum dull, the latter with a shining line 
in middle; area of metathorax coarsely reticulate, without a 
transverse keel ; tegule ferruginous ; wings hyaline, faintly dusky, 
nervures fuscous ; legs with pale ochreous-tinted hair; spurs pale 
reddish ; first abominal segment very distinctly punctured, with thin 
long pale ochreous hair ail over; second segment with fine but 
distinct punctures ; segments 1 to 5 with dense light ochreous apical 
hair-bands ; apical segment broadly rounded. 
Durban, Natal, 11th March, 1917, and Ist April, 1917 (HE. C. 
Chubb). 
Distinguished from C’. malma (Cameron) by the ochreous hair-bands 
and the almost entirely black tarsi, 
