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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF 

 HYMENOPTEEA FEOM PEAESTON, CAPE COLONY.* 



By P. Cameron. 

 (Eead June 27, 1906.) 



ANTHOPHILA. 



Gen. OSMIA, Panz. 



OSMIA CAPENSIS, sp. nOV. 



Black, smooth, and shining ; the underside of the antennal 

 nagellum bright rufous below; the pubescence on the body pale 

 (perhaps fulvous on fresh specimens) ; on the apex of tibiae and on 

 the underside of the tarsi rufous ; wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, 

 the nervures black. ? . 



Length 7 mm. 



Front and vertex obscurely shagreened, shining, the ocelli in a 

 curve (• • ') ; the hinder separated from each other by a distinctly less 

 distance than they are from the eyes. Clypeus very smooth and 

 shining, the apex slightly curled up, brownish. Labrum fringed 

 with fulvous pubescence. Mandibles piceous for the greater part ; 

 the apical tooth long, becoming gradually narrowed towards the 

 apex. Mesonotum obscurely, minutely punctured; the scutellum 

 and post-scutellum closely, finely, but distinctly punctured ; the 

 latter, if anything, more strongly than the former ; the scutellum is 

 depressed slightly in the middle on the apical half. Pronotum very 

 smooth and shining. Basal area of metanotum smooth, shining, 

 not very clearly defined ; the depression on the apical slope is wide, 

 deep ; it is obliquely narrowed above ; below it is much widened ; 

 the top of the widened part is roundly curved and extends close to 



* The species described in this paper were captured by my old friend,. 

 Professor Robert Broom, of Victoria College, Stellenbosch. 



