308 Natal Bees 
ALLODAPE BEVISI, sp. nov. 
Q. Length about 4:5 mm.; black, with very scanty white 
pubescence ; face narrow, the orbits converging below ; no lateral 
face-marks ; clypeus very broad, cream-colour or pale yellowish, with 
a black pit on each side, so that the light area recalls a cup (with a 
long base) standing in a saucer; labrum pale reddish ; mandibles 
ferruginous with black base; antenne black, scape pale yellow in 
front ; tubercles yellow ; scutellum entirely black, dullish ; tegule 
hyaline; wings hyaline, very faintly dusky; stigma very large, 
reddish brown; lower section of basal nervure vertical; first 
recurrent nervure joining extreme base of second submarginal cell ; 
femora black with the knees red ; tibie and tarsi bright ferruginous ; 
abdomen broad, hind margins of segments dull brownish-testaceous. 
Type from Umbilo, 26th August, 1914 (L. Bevis). Also Umbilo, 
1916 (L. Bevis). Close to A. maurula, but easily known by the 
red tibiz and tarsi. 
The following key separates the species of Al/odape in the last 
sending. Two species (A and B), which seem to be new, are 
represented by specimens which lost the abdomen in transit. I place 
them under the heading of abdomen black, as this was probably the 
colour. I hope they will be rediscovered, and if eonfirmed as new, 
described, by the local collectors. It is much regretted that we do 
not know what flowers these species of Adlodape visit. 1t is probable 
that they have different habits, and not unlikely that they are 
oligotropic, that is, confined to particular genera or closely related 
genera of plants. 
Abdomen mainly red ; scutellum largely yellowish (it is all black 
in A. pyrifera, Ckll) ; larger species..............-.--..--+-+++ i 
Abdomen black (lost.in Avand’B). 300-6... sescenee see eee tee Nee eee 
1. Malescelypeus yellow... .0..2- ssc dere een marleyt, sp. nov. 
Female ; clypeus with a yellow band........ vittaticeps, sp. NOV. 
2. Clypeus with a white anchor-shaped mark, the arms of the 
T or anchor with downwardly projecting points (Pinetown, 
29th October, 1916, H. W. Bell-Marley)................. sp. A. 
Clypeus not thus marked.................01sesceceee teens eens ee en es 3. 
3. Broad robust forms, with linear lateral face marks; males...4. 
Small slender forms; no lateral face-marks..................... D. 
4, Clypeus white, marked with an irregular black line down 
each side (Stella Bush, December, 1916, H. W. Bell Marley) 
BITS. : a sicittce Nex Ca Le EE LE aan Re re eee stellarum, Ckll., var. 
