﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  129 
  

  

  covered 
  with 
  a 
  dull 
  golden 
  down 
  and 
  with 
  some 
  long 
  

   black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  its 
  apex 
  bearing 
  much 
  longer 
  hairs. 
  Mandibles 
  

   very 
  large, 
  opaque, 
  the 
  middle 
  above 
  with 
  some 
  elongated 
  

   punctures 
  and 
  elongated 
  striae 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  tooth 
  large 
  ; 
  

   the 
  basal 
  rounded 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Antennae 
  black, 
  

   glabrous. 
  Thorax 
  opaque, 
  closely 
  rugosely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   above 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  rufous 
  hair, 
  this 
  being 
  also 
  

   the 
  case 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  pleurae 
  ; 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  

   the 
  lower 
  part 
  are 
  much 
  darker 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  sternum 
  fulvous, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  broadly 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  

   Wings 
  smoky, 
  darker 
  and 
  more 
  violaceous 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   the 
  base 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  yellowish 
  tinge 
  ; 
  the 
  costa, 
  stigma, 
  

   and 
  nervures 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  last 
  with 
  a 
  yellowish 
  tinge 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  ; 
  the 
  recurrent 
  nervures 
  are 
  both 
  

   received 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  transverse 
  cubitals. 
  

   Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  stiff 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   four 
  tibiae 
  end 
  above 
  in 
  a 
  large 
  stout 
  somewhat 
  

   triangular 
  process, 
  which 
  ends 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  curved 
  point. 
  

   The 
  basal 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  broadly 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  above 
  ; 
  the 
  sides, 
  base, 
  and 
  apex 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  rufous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  segment 
  depressed 
  at 
  the 
  

   base, 
  fringed 
  with 
  fulvous 
  hairs, 
  this 
  being 
  also 
  the 
  case 
  

   with 
  the 
  third 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  and 
  following 
  

   segments 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  stiff 
  black 
  hairs. 
  Ventral 
  

   surface 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  stiff 
  black 
  hairs. 
  The 
  

   hinder 
  calcaria 
  are 
  short 
  and 
  thick. 
  

  

  This 
  Megachile 
  is, 
  next 
  to 
  M. 
  Pluto 
  Sm. 
  (from 
  Bachian), 
  

   the 
  largest 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  Oriental 
  Region. 
  

   Smith's 
  species 
  is 
  18 
  lines 
  in 
  length, 
  that 
  being 
  however 
  

   the 
  length 
  of 
  a 
  2, 
  the 
  only 
  sex 
  known 
  to 
  its 
  describer 
  

   {Trans. 
  Linn. 
  Soc, 
  V., 
  1860, 
  133). 
  Our 
  species 
  is 
  also 
  

   apparently 
  related 
  to 
  M. 
  inonticola 
  Sm., 
  but 
  I 
  cannot 
  make 
  

   it 
  agree 
  with 
  Smith's 
  description. 
  

  

  