306 Natal Bees 
ridge ; pleura very finely punctured ; wings dusky hyaline; stigma 
and nervures dark brown; recurrent nervures joining submarginal 
cells a short distance from their ends ; abdomen dullish, impunctate, 
first segment with a small fringe of white hair on each side. 
¢. Length about 5°5 mm.; slender, with very long antenne, the 
flagellum dull ferruginous beneath ; clypeus and lateral face-marks 
pale lemon-yellow, the clypeus narrowly edged with black above, 
below and at sides, except the lower lateral margins ; lateral marks 
narrow, broadest opposite upper part of clypeus, tapering to a slender 
point at about level of antennal sockets ; anterior tibise and basitarsi 
with a pale yellow line in front ; middle and hind tibie brown, with 
the basal half of the basitarsi mainly creamy-white ; extreme bases 
of abdominal segments inclined to be reddish or pallid. Mandibles 
bidentate. 
The type female is from Durban, August, 1916 (C. N. Barker). 
Another female, received from the South African Museum, is from 
Knysna, Cape Colony, October, 1916 (LL. Péringuey). The males are 
from Durban, August, 1916 (C. N. Barker). The sexes are 
associated because of the similar sculpture, and the fact that they 
were both collected at Durban in August. The black labrum and 
mandibles of the male and the venation separate the species from 
- P. longula, Friese, from Rhodesia. . 
' ALLODAPE, Lepeletier. 
ALLODAPE MARLEYI, sp. nov. 
¢. Length about 8 mm.; robust, head and thorax black with 
light yellow markings; legs black; abdomen chestnut red, first 
segment black except posterior margin (the edge of the black concave 
posteriorly), third segment infuscated, and segments beyond black 
with dark reddish margins; labrum and mandibles black ; clypeus 
yellow ; yellow lateral marks filling space between clypeus and eye 
nearly to top of clypeus, then suddenly narrowed and continued as a 
narrow band up orbits to about middle level of front; a narrow 
yellow stripe behind each eye; tubercles and margin of prothorax 
black ; a small yellow mark on the translucent tegule ; scutellum 
with a large crescent-shaped yellow mark, its anterior (concave) 
margin angulate in middle; antenne and legs black ; wings strongly 
reddish, with ferruginous stigma and nervures; hind trochanters 
dentate, 
