248 Natal Bees 
middle, and just before the angle coarsely senate with four teeth ; 
clypeus abbreviated, snout-like, with a large semi-circular concave 
smooth polished space, surrounded above and at sides by a salient 
rim; on the upper surface, above the rim, is a broad wedge-shaped 
depression. Labrum very large, shallowly sulcate in middle; cheeks 
broad and rounded, very densely punctured ; front and vertex densely 
and coarsely punctured; mesothorax polished, with sparse strong 
punctures ; scutellum densely punctured; abdomen punctured all 
over; ventral segments with short silvery-white hair. 
Variety A. Length 85-9 mm.; the depression on upper-side of 
clypeus with a longitudinal yellow mark. The depressed shining basin 
of clypeus is quite small in the smallest specimen. 
Type from Eshowe, 8th January, 1916 (Marley). Co-type the 
same, but 7th January, 1916. Variety a, Umbilo, 7th February, 
1917 (L. Bevis) and Umbilo, 1916 (1. Bevis). Nearest to C. nagriceps, 
Friese, but larger, with pale marks on anterior legs. 
CERATINA FIMBRIATULA, Sp. Nov. 
9 (Type). Length about 7 mm.; black, with dusky wings; no 
pale marks on thorax or abdomen ; abdomen with narrow hair-fringes, 
only at sides on first two segments; hind tibiz with a single large 
sharp tooth on middle of outer side; anterior tibiz with a variable 
pale line; clypeus with a depressed polished triangular basin, rounded 
above and produced at sides, the part above broadly yellow, the yellow 
extending on each side of the basin as a curved stripe, the whole 
yellow mark like a very broad reversed V with a very large base ; 
sides of face with very coarse punctures; upper part of labrum with 
a triangular dull area; cheeks coarsely punctured all over; meso- 
thorax very coarsely punctured, but a large space in middle with only 
a few punctures ; scutellum densely and very coarsely punctured. 
¢. Length about 6mm.; clypeus ordinary, bright chrome-yellow, 
with a slender median sulcus; labrum yellow; anterior tibize and 
basitarsi with a slender yellow line along their whole length ; apex of 
abdomen broad, with a’small dentiform apical angle ; hind tibiz with 
a broad pencil of very long hairs on inner side. 
Type 2 from Malvern, Natal, March, 1916 (Barker). Co-type ?, 
Durban, 11th March, 1917 (E. C. Chubb). Male, Umbilo, 25th 
February, 1917 (L. Bevis). Related to C. dunata, Friese, but smaller, 
with the yellow face-mark of female differently shaped (crescent-like 
in /unata), and the male with black tubercles. 
