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Osmia similis n. sp. ?. 



Genau wie 0. aurulenta Pz. 6* (Europa) gefärbt. 



?. Schwarz, gelblichweiß behaart, Kopf und Thorax grob runzlig-punktiert, matt, Clypeusrand gerundet, 

 glatt, glänzend, grob krenuliert, Mandibelende breit, rot, mit 3 großen Zähnen; Antenne rotbraun, kurz, End- 

 glied platt, abgestutzt; Area fast glatt, glänzend. Abdomen grob punktiert, stellenweise gerunzelt, matt, Segment 

 1 — 2 weißlich gefranst, 3 — 5 mehr rötlich gefranst, 5 — 6 überall rostfarben behaart, Scopa rostrot. Beine schwarz, 

 Tarsen 2 — 5 rot, Calcar gelbbraun, Beine dünn rotgelb behaart. Flügel gebräunt, mit hellem Rande, Adern 

 braun, Tegulae rotbraun. L. 11 mm, Br. 3 1 / 2 mm. 



? von Kapland, 1 ? im Mus. Wien ebendaher. 



Südafrika. 



Osinia capicola n. n. 

 1906 Osmia capensis Cameron, ?, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XVI, p. 323 (nee Cameron 1905). 



$. Black, smooth, and shining; the underside of the antennal flagellum bright rufous below; the pubes- 

 cence on the body pale (perhaps fulvous on fresh speeimens) ; on the apex of tibiae and on the underside of the 

 tarsi rufous; wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, the nervures black. L. 7 mm. 



Kap. (von Pearston). 



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 pieeous for the greater 

 part; the apical tooth long, becoming gradually narrowed towards the apex. Mesonotum obscurely, minutely 

 punetured; the scutellum and post-scutellum closely, finely, but distinctly punetured; 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 outer edge. Calcaria testaeeous; tarsal claws bright rufous. 

 The middle of the front at the antennae projeets into a keel, which becomes widened below. 



This is certainly not 0. globicola Stadelm. (also from the Cape of Good Hope) ; the distinet furrow leading- 

 from the ocelli to the antennae (absent in the species here described) should separate the two; if Stadelm ann's 

 figure is correct, the fore ocellus is separated by a greater distance from the posterior than it is in my species. 

 0. fervida Sm. from Natal appears to be, so far as can be made out from the incomplete description, a different 

 and larger species. Only its d has been described. In capicola the apices of the abdominal segments, under the 

 hair bands, are lead-coloured. 



Kapland — Pearston. 



Osmia ? capensis Cam. 



1905 Osmia capensis Cambron, ?, in: Reo. Albany Mus., Vol. I, p. 197. 



? ob S oder $. Black, thickly covered with long, white hair, the 4 front tibiae and tarsi rufous, tibiae 

 darker behind; flagellum of antennae ferruginous below; wings hyaline, with a slight fuscous-violaceous tinge, 

 stigma testaeeous, Costa and nervures black er. L. 10 mm. 



Face and clypeus strongly punetured, the sides more closely than the centre ; the centre of the face only 

 sparsely punetured. Vertex sparsely punetured, the sides closely, distinctly, somewhat obliquely striated, the 



