954 Natal Bees 
Apparently related to C. polita (Strand, as Scrapter), from Spanish 
Guinea, but smaller. 
Scrapter, Lepeletier, 1825, included four species. One of these, 
S. lagopus (Latr.), was the European insect now known as Macropis 
labiata (Fabr.). The other three are from Caffraria, and apparently 
have not been collected since, but they are presumed to belong to 
Ctenoplectra, Smith. Formerly it was customary to regard Scrapter 
as a synonym of Macropis, but more recently Friese and others have 
used it in place of Ctenoplectra. Ashmead (1899) treated it as a 
distinct Panurgine genus, designating S. brullei, Lepeletier, 1841, 
from the Canary Islands, as the type. This is impossible, since bruller 
is not one of the original species. I will herewith designate S. lagopus 
as the type of Scrapter, making it accordingly a synonym of Macropis. 
Robertson defined a family Macropodide, type genus Macropis ; 
but there is already a family Macropodide, Waterhouse (1841), for 
Macropus, Shaw, the kangaroo. The family of bees may be called 
Ctenoplectridxe, with Ctenoplectra as the type genus. 
HALIcTUS ATELOPTERUS, sp. nov. 
2. Length about 6°6 mm.; black, head and thorax with rather 
long white hair, abundant and coarse on face and pleura, but not 
hiding surface; head broader than long, orbits converging below ; 
mandibles bright pale ferruginous in middle; antenne black; clypeus 
dullish ; vertex shining; region in front of ocelli rather swollen ; 
cheeks small, with dense white hair ; mesothorax and scutellum 
shining, appearing impunctate under a lens; area of metathorax 
semi-circular, well-defined behind, irregularly wrinkled all over; legs 
black with white hair, small joints of tarsi ferruginous; tegule 
piceous ; wings milky-hyaline ; stigma and nervures dark sepia, except 
the second and third transversocubitals and second recurrent, which 
are hyaline and hardly noticeable; first recurrent nervure meeting 
second transversocubital ; first submarginal cell larger than second and 
third combined; abdomen broad, shining, fourth segment reddened 
basally ; no hair-bands; venter with loose white hair, which collects 
pollen; hind spur pectinate with numerous teeth. The stigma is 
reddish in middle, with broad dark borders. 
Umbilo, 10th February, 1917 (L. Bevis). 
Nearest, perhaps, to the smaller H. lampronotus, Cameron, but 
recognisable at once by the peculiar wings, which seem at first sight 
to have only one submarginal cell. 
