﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  133 
  

  

  clypeus 
  projectin*^ 
  ; 
  smooth, 
  shininj:^, 
  impunctate, 
  and 
  

   slightly 
  notched 
  at 
  the 
  apex; 
  mandibles 
  coarsely 
  punc- 
  

   tured, 
  their 
  lower 
  edges 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  and 
  impunc- 
  

   tate, 
  and 
  fringed 
  with 
  long 
  golden 
  hairs. 
  Mesonotum 
  

   strongly 
  punctured, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  fuscous 
  

   pubescence 
  ; 
  the 
  sides, 
  base, 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  tegulas 
  

   thickly 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs. 
  Base 
  of 
  median 
  segment 
  

   shining, 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  it 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  and 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs. 
  Femora 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  

   side 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  soft 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

   more 
  thickly 
  ; 
  the 
  tarsi 
  still 
  more 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   fulvous 
  pubescence, 
  especially 
  the 
  hinder 
  four. 
  Wings 
  

   clear 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  and 
  stigma 
  black. 
  Abdomen 
  

   above 
  rather 
  strongly 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  

   segments 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  densely 
  fringed 
  with 
  white 
  pube- 
  

   scence 
  ; 
  the 
  transverse 
  furrows 
  on 
  the 
  second 
  and 
  third 
  

   segments 
  deep, 
  shining, 
  impunctate. 
  Ventral 
  fringe 
  

   long 
  ; 
  clear 
  white. 
  

  

  Megachile 
  maligna, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Nigra; 
  fenioribiis 
  riifis 
  ; 
  abdominis 
  scopa 
  fiilva 
  ; 
  alis 
  

   hyalinis. 
  2 
  ei 
  <3 
  , 
  Long. 
  8 
  — 
  gmm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Mussouri 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Head 
  black, 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  face 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   long 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  vertex 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  the 
  

   hairs 
  much 
  sparser 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  deeper 
  fulvous 
  tint. 
  Man- 
  

   dibles 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   with 
  long 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  two 
  teeth 
  stout 
  ; 
  

   the 
  part 
  at 
  their 
  base 
  piceous. 
  Antennae 
  entirely 
  black. 
  

   Thorax 
  coarsely 
  alutaceous, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  

   hairs, 
  which 
  are 
  especially 
  long 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  meta- 
  

   notum, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  paler 
  tint. 
  Median 
  segment 
  

   alutaceous, 
  its 
  slope 
  rather 
  abrupt. 
  The 
  fore 
  femora 
  

   black 
  ; 
  the 
  lower 
  side 
  entirely 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  above, 
  and 
  the 
  hinder 
  four 
  pairs, 
  rufous; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

  

  