318 Natal Bees. 
irregular plice; posterior truncation not sharply defined; tegule 
piceous with a rufescent spot ; wings hyaline, faintly dusky, stigma 
and nervures dusky reddish-brown, the outer recurrent and transverso- 
cubital pale and weak, but readily visible; second submarginal cell 
large, nearly square, receiving the first recurrent nervure at its apical 
corner ; third submarginal short, not very much larger than second ; 
legs dark reddish-brown, with the hind tibiz on inner side, and tarsi 
in large part, ferruginous, the hind basitarsi red with a dusky cloud 
on apical half; tarsi on inner side with very brilliant orange- 
ferruginous hair, a line of copper-red hair on inner side of middle tibiz, 
and one of paler hair on middle femora basally beneath ; hind spur 
pectinate with about six dark teeth; abdomen shining, impunctate, 
microscopically transversely lineolate-reticulate ; bases of segments 
with bands of greyish-white tomentum, dense and even on second 
segment, less distinct on the others. 
Umbilo, 18th February, 1917 (L. Bevis). A rather ordinary species, 
known among the Natal forms by the partly red legs, dusky reddish- 
brown stigma, mainly dark flagellum, etc. It is not so large as H. 
diversus, Smith, and the hind spur is different. 
—— re aaa) 
JOHN SINGLETON & SONS, PRINTERS, DURBAN. 
