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with somewhat dense glittering pale yellow pubescence, forming a tiift 

 on the tubercles, and specially dense on the femora and inside of the 

 tibial of the posterior legs ; the base of the 1st and the apical two 

 segments of the abdomen blackish, the anal rima pale testaceous ; wings 

 hyaline, tegulfe and nervures testaceous. 

 9. Length 7 ; exp. 14 mm. 



ITab. Simla, Mussoorie, Sikhim. 

 18. Nonila tegulata, Smith. 



Nomia tegulata. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. G9. 



An Arabian and African species not previously recorded from Indir*. 

 Specimens vary somewhat in size and in the colour of the tegulaa, but can 

 be easily distinguished from all others by the remarkably laro-e 

 development of the latter. I give Smith's original description : — 



" Female. — Length 2| to 3|- lines. Black and thinly covered with 

 short cinereous pubescence, that on the tarsi and posterior tibiag pale 

 fulvous. Head : the flagellum fulvous beneath towards the apex ; 

 the clypeus rather strongly and closely ])unctured. Thorax : the 

 metathorax smooth with the sides pimctured. Wings hyaline with their 

 apical margins clouded, the nervures testaceous, the tegulse laro-e and 

 pale testaceons, having anteriorly a rufo-fuscous spot ; the posterior 

 tibiag and all the tarsi pale ferruginous ; abdomen, at the basal 

 margins of the segments a fascia of pale pubescence, over which is a 

 thin fringe of pale fulvous hairs on the apical margins." 



Hah. Sierra Leone, Aden, Deesa. 



Specimens vary in length from 2| — 4^ lines ( 6 — 9 mm.) and in 

 the colour of the tegnlse from white to dark testaceous-yellow. 

 19. Megachile creusa, sp. no v. 



9. Head, thorax, and the bases of the abdominal segm^ents strono-Iy 

 but finely punctured ; head very large and maasive, broader than the 

 thorax, emarginate posteriorly ; clypeus slightly convex, broader than 

 high, its anterior margin transverse ; median segment very short, 

 smooth, and impunctate at base : abdomen about as long as the head and 

 thorax united ; the apical margins of segments 2 — 5 strongly depressed 

 the anterior border of the depressed bands bisinuate. Black the 

 flagellum of the antennas, and the femora, tibiag, and tarsi of all the 

 legs dark blood-red ; the front and clypeus, sides of the thorax and of 

 the median segment, covered with long, the margins of the abdominal 



