294 Natal Bees 
Similar to WV. fausta (Smith), but larger, with redder wings, and 
basal area of metathorax rugose, not shining. It also differs in the 
very broad second submarginal cell. 
Malvern, Natal, 22nd December, 1915 (C. N. Barker). 
NomIa DURBANENSIS, Sp. Nov. 
2. Length about 7 mm.; black, with the hind tibiz, and all the 
tarsi, dull ferruginous, but the red color largely concealed by white 
hair; head broad ; hair of sides of face clear white (yellowish in 
N. megalepis) ; apical half of flagellum red beneath; clypeus and 
supraclypeal area closely and very distinctly punctured, but shining ; 
mandibles dark red subapically ; prothorax (with tubercles) densely 
covered with creamy-white or fulvescent hair: mesothorax dullish, 
with excessively minute well separated punctures, and widely 
scattered much larger ones; base of metathorax with a narrow 
transverse channel, dullish but hardly ridged ; tegule very large, 
expanded behind, brown anteriorly, posteriorly whitish ; abdomen 
with broad greyish hair-bands at basis of segments 2 to 4, and 
narrower ones in transverse sulci; first segment with an eye-shaped 
patch of white tomentum on each side; fifth segment fringed with 
pale brown hair. Very close to WV. megalepis, Ckll., but more slender, 
with white hair on face, and darker, shorter stigma. Also related to 
N. tegulata Smith, described from Sierra Leone. Possibly the 
Durban (Meade-Waldo, 1916) record of tegulata refers to this or 
megalepis. True tegulata has pale fulvous hair on hind tibiz; as in 
megalepis ; in durbanensis it is white. 
Durban, 26th August, 1916 (C. N. Barker). Two specimens. 
It is possible that WV. megalepis may prove identical with WV. 
teguiata, but it is certainly distinct from the supposed teyw/lata 
described by Vachal. 
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NoMIA CLARIPES, Sp. nov. 
é. Length 95-10 mm.; black, with broad abdomen, the 
pubescence pale fulvous, light golden on face ; head broad, mandibles 
pale yellow basally, red subapically, black at tip ; scape red, flagellum 
black above and clear red below; mesothorax very hairy, very 
densely punctured, glistening between the punctures ; mesothorax 
hairy, the transverse basal sulcus crossed by strong ridges; tegule 
rather large, light ferruginous ; wings dusky hyaline, yellowish, not 
distinetly darkened apically ; stigma and nervures ferruginous ; basal 
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