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SOME AFRICAN BEES OF THE GENUS NOMIA 
By T. D. A. Cockerell 
The bees recorded in this paper belong to the British Museum, 
but will be retained by me until after the war. 
Nomia semlikiana Cockerell 
Uganda; Entebbe, April 12, 1914. $ (C. C. Gowdey) 
Nomia matha (Cameron) 
Natal; Van Reenen, Drakensberg, Dec., Jan. (R. E. Turner); 
Cape Province; Worcester, Jan. (Turner); Milverton, Cape 
Town, Jan. 1926. (Turner). 
Nomia heterodoxa, sp. n. 
cf. Length about 11.5 mm., anterior wing 10.8; black, with 
the scape red at base, flagellum obscurely reddened beneath, and 
the legs bright ferruginous; face very narrow, with pale cinereous 
hair, the lower part of clypeus swollen and exposed; vertex shin- 
ing; pronotum with a narrow pale fringe; mesonotum and scutel- 
lum dull, not hairy, the mesonotum with linear notauli and a 
slender median line shining; scutellum elevated, with a pair of 
large bosses, shining at end; base of metathorax dull, with a shin- 
ing median groove; tegulae rather large (but not of the large 
type) with a light brown boss and subhyaline margins; wings 
very long, with a large dark brown stigma and brown nervures, 
the basal nervure, curved at lower end, meeting nervulus, the 
second submarginal cell small and very narrow; the wings are 
hyaline at base, but the apex is occupied by a very large black 
cloud, which includes the apical half of the marginal cell; legs 
slender and simple, the hind basitarsi very long, anterior basi- 
tarsi with very long hairs ; abdomen with the basal tergite highly 
polished, the others mainly dull, without hairbands, the apical 
margins of second and third tergites reddened; fifth sternite with 
a black elevation on basal middle. Uganda; Mabra Forest, 
Chagwe, 3500-3800 ft., July 1911 (S. A. Neave). Related to 
