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The genus Ceratina is probably well represented in South Africa. 

 Mr. Stadelmann (Die Hymenopteren von Ost-Afrikas, p. 3) states 

 that he knows eight species which agree with the description of 

 C. capensis, Sm. Col. Bingham informs me that my species is not 

 in the British Museum Collection. 



Gen. ALLODAPE, Lep. 

 Allodape foveiscutis, sp. nov. 



Black, smooth, and shining ; the clypeus, the curved, raised inner 

 orbits, labrum, an oblique spot on the outer edge of the malar space, 

 mandibles, under side of antennal scape, a broad band, roundly 

 dilated, on the upper side of pronotum and tubercles, bright lemon- 

 yellow ; the abdomen, apex of femora broadly, tibiae and tarsi 

 rufous ; the fore femora, on the apical two-thirds below, bright 

 lemon-yellow ; wings clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures 

 fuscous. $ . 



Length nearly 5 mm. 



Cape Colony. Pearston. 



Smooth and shining ; the clypeus sparsely, distinctly punctured ; 

 the metanotal area aciculated. Tips of mandibles rufous. Front 

 raised ; a smooth, shining line in the centre. Pleurae and sternum 

 densely covered with long, white pubescence ; scutellums covered 

 with long pale hair, the rest of the thorax almost bare. The first 

 abdominal segment is marked at the base and near the apex with 

 fuscous ; the apical segments are darker coloured, punctured and 

 covered with white hair. Hair on the legs dense, white ; on the 

 four hind femora it is long. The second recurrent nervure is 

 received at a greater distance from the apex than is the first from 

 the base of the cellule. 



The scutellum is furrowed in the middle ; this furrow has oblique 

 sides, the whole forming a large pyriform depression with the 

 narrow end at the base ; the post-scutellum has a narrow, clearly 

 defined furrow in the centre. 



Characteristics of this species are the black furrowed scutellums. 



Allodape melanopus, sp. nov. 



Black, the abdomen red ; a very irregular T-shaped mark on the 

 clypeus, its sides irregularly indented and the apical part appearing 

 as if it formed a separate line, a large, irregular, transverse mark, 

 narrowed laterally on the scutellum, a large line on the base of pro- 

 notum and a mark on the base of mesopleurae, irregularly tridentate 



