112 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviil 



Related to M. viacularis Dalla Torre, but much smaller, and with 

 differently colored mandibles. 



Habitat. — Adelaide (Schomburgk). 2 females. Berlin Museum, 

 19410. 

 Megachile remotula, new species. 



Female. — Length lo-ii mm., black with mostly white (not abundant) 

 pubescence, the last two abdominal segments covered except at sides by 

 appressed shining orange-fulvous hair ; head large and broad, eyes slightly 

 converging below ; face with abundant spreading white hair at sides ; on the 

 vertex the hair is fuscous, and fuscous hair is mixed with the white on the 

 front, on the clypeus it is white ; clypeus densely punctured, its upper part with 

 a median raised line, its lower margin quadridentate, the teeth small, the 

 inner pair only clearly dentiform, while from beneath this edge project short 

 orange hairs ; mandibles broad, dark reddish, with three teeth, not counting 

 the inner edge ; front very densely punctured ; ocelli rather large ; flagellum 

 ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum dull, exceedingly densely 

 punctured, with short hardly noticeable fuscous hair ; other parts of thorax 

 with rather long white hair ; area of metathorax with a sericeous, rather shin- 

 ing surface ; tegulas dark reddish, closely punctured ; wings dusky, stigma and 

 nervures dark fuscous ; second s. m. long, receiving the recurrent nervures 

 about equally distant from base and apex ; b. n. meeting t. m. ; legs reddish- 

 black, in parts distinctly reddish ; hind spurs peculiar, blunt, with a little apical 

 claw like hook ; first abdominal segment with a patch of white hair on each 

 side ; segments 2 to 4 with narrow white apical hair-bands ; apical segment 

 not far from vertical : ventral scopa entirely white. 



M. remotula is related to M. fcrox Sm., of which only the male 

 is known. 



Habitat. — Eastern Australia (Prciss). 2 females. Berlin Mu- 

 seum, 1003. 

 Megachile trichognatha, new species. 



Females. — Length about 10 mm., black, rather slender, parallel sided; head 

 oblong, rather longer than broad ; eyes greenish, greyish in front ; cutting 

 edge of mandibles densely fringed with orange-fulvous hair ; clypeus trans- 

 verse, densely punctured, with a small snout-like median apical elevation ; 

 sides of face with white hair ; flagellum dull ferruginous beneath ; cheeks broad, 

 rounded ; front, vertex, mesothorax and scutellum densely punctured, but the 

 .thorax still shining ; a little patch of white hair above base of wings ; sides 

 of metathorax with white hair ; area dull, the basal half rugose ; tegulse piceous ; 

 wings a little dusky, nervures and stigma dark fuscous, sometimes ferruginous ; 

 b. n. falling a very little short of t. m. ; legs black, claws ferruginous ; ab- 

 domen well punctured, deeply excavated at base, second to fourth segments 

 constricted basally ; hind margins of segments one to three with variously 



