170 THE BEES OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



Wings dark in some, but n<it so vioUceuus; head if white-liaired, less 

 conspicuously so; lateral teeth of apical segment of male abdomen 

 well-developed (unknown in C. peregiiiiata, but it has the hair of 

 the head ferruginous) 3. 



3. Pubescence ferruginous; last ventral segment of female abdomen with- 



out lateral notches peregrinata Ckll. 



Pubescence white 4. 



4. Larger; wings darker; last ventral segment of female abdomen deeply 



notched ou each side; abdominal hair-bauds lateral only (Queens- 

 land) 7-egi7tce CkU. 



Smaller, length of Q hardly 10 mm., of ^ 74; last ventral segment of 

 female abdomen barely notched; white abdominal bands entire or 

 very slightly interrupted; eyes pale green; scutellum with two 

 large white hair-spots, sometimes absent (rubbed off?); wings with 



the apical field pale brownish [Victoria (Froggalt, 57.)] 



f roggatti CkW., n.sp.f 



MeGACHILE MENDANiE 11. Sp. 



Q Length about 16 mm., width of abdomen 5; shape about 

 as in i)/. lucidiventris Smith, the abdomen large and thick, 

 but of the parallel-sided type ; hair of head and thorax 

 bright fox-red, paler below, red also on sides of first abdomi- 

 nal segment ; rest of abdomen with very short black hair, 

 ventral scopa black ; hair of legs scanty, ferruginous on 

 femora, otherwise mainly black or dark fuscous, but red on 

 inner side of hind tarsi, and largely so on inner side of middle 

 ones ; head large, inner orbits with a double curve, the eyes 

 diverging below ; mandibles with two teeth, and a broad cut- 

 ting edge within ; clypeus short, transverse, coarsely rugose, 

 slightly keeled, the lower margin gently convex, with a pair 

 of small widely separated tubercles ; hair of clypeus red, but 

 inconspicuous : antennae black ; cheeks densely punctured ; 

 mesothorax minutely and densely rugoso-punctate, with scat- 

 tered larger punctures ; scutellum densely covered with short 

 bright red hair, its surface hidden ; hind basitarsus not 

 greatly broadened ; tegulae dullish black ; wings dark fuli- 



t Additional particulars concerning C. froggalti will be given in a paper 

 dealing with Australian bees. 



