Otte dD). At Goeneral 295 
nervure little bent; femora, tibie and tarsi clear light ferruginous, 
the anterior and middle femora blackened basally behind ; hind legs ° 
quite unmodified ; abdomen with erect pale fulvous hair, and broad 
pale ochreous hair-bands on hind margins of segments; first two 
segments dull, with the surface appearing coarsely granular, but 
basal sulcus of second shining; the other segments shining ; apical 
plate red ; venter largely red. 
Type from Bluff, Durban, 25th March, 1917 (C. N. Barker). 
Also two from Durban, 2nd April, 1918 (C. N. Barker). The colour 
of antenne and wings readily separate it from WV. rubripes Friese, 
which it resembles in the red legs. 
Nomta NITIDIBASIS, Sp. NOv. 
Q. Length about 12 mm., with very bright and dense ferruginous 
hair covering thorax above ; wings hyaline, the apical margin faintly 
infuseated; stigma and nervures dull brown; tegule clear ferruginous; 
abdomen with four broad hair-bands, the first two fulvous, the third 
white at sides and pale fulvous in middle, the fourth pure white; 
heavy fringe on fifth segment and apex dark chocolate. Looks 
exactly like WV. vu/pina wmbiloensis, but readily separated by the 
shining abdomen, the first segment especially polished and brilliant ; 
it also differs by the stigma being heavily bordered by dark fuscous, 
the knees not red, and the hind tibiz beneath with a loose curled 
beautifully plumose white scopa. 
Two from Durban, 9th and 23rd March, 1918 (C. N. Barker). 
NoMIA PLATYCEPHALA, Cockerell. 
The female from Winklespruit, 23rd December, 1918 (C. N. 
Barker), is very like the male, but the head is not so broad. The 
hind tibize have long pale fulvous hair on inner side, but some 
fuscous hair on outer face, while the curled scopa beneath is creamy- 
white. The venter of the abdomen has pale reddish hair. The 
tongue is long and slender. 
NoOMIA MURINELLA, sp. nov. 
9. Length about 8 mm.; superficially just like WV. platycephala, 
but differing thus: face narrower below ; tongue much _ shorter ; 
paraglossee with long hairs ; palpi shorter, last two joints of labial 
palpi short (long and slender in platycephala) ; scutellum and middle 
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