﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  135 
  

  

  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  mesopleurae 
  with 
  the 
  punctures 
  much 
  

   larger, 
  those 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  being 
  more 
  widely 
  separated 
  and 
  

   larger 
  ; 
  the 
  top, 
  base, 
  and 
  apex 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  

   hairs. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs, 
  especially 
  the 
  

   tarsi 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  fore 
  femora 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  

   four 
  femora 
  entirely, 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  coxae, 
  the 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  middle 
  trochanters 
  and 
  the 
  hinder 
  trochanters, 
  

   the 
  hinder 
  tibae 
  and 
  the 
  hinder 
  tarsi 
  broadly 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  

   rufous 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  tibiae 
  and 
  base 
  of 
  tarsi 
  strongly 
  punc- 
  

   tured 
  ; 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  metatarsus 
  covered 
  thickly 
  

   with 
  long 
  golden 
  hairs; 
  the 
  calcaria 
  pale 
  golden. 
  Abdomen 
  

   closely 
  punctured; 
  the 
  segments 
  fringed 
  with 
  silvery 
  hairs; 
  

   interrupted 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  segment; 
  the 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  

   strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  scopa 
  pale 
  fulvous. 
  Wings 
  clear 
  

   hyaline, 
  the 
  nervures 
  and 
  stigma 
  fuscous. 
  

  

  Megachile 
  parvula, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  dense 
  alho-pilosa 
  ; 
  alts 
  hyalinis, 
  nervis 
  nigro- 
  

   fuscis. 
  2 
  . 
  Long, 
  fere 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Mussouri 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Front 
  and 
  vertex 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  the 
  former 
  not 
  

   so 
  strongly 
  as 
  the 
  latter 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  more 
  closely 
  and 
  

   not 
  quite 
  so 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  as 
  the 
  front 
  ; 
  the 
  vertex 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  fuscous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  orbits 
  and 
  the 
  

   cl3'peus 
  more 
  thickly 
  with 
  white 
  pubescence, 
  especially 
  

   the 
  orbits 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  slightly 
  projecting 
  ; 
  its 
  apex 
  

   curved 
  ; 
  the 
  labrum 
  thickly 
  fringed 
  with 
  golden 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   the 
  mandibles 
  closely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  three-fourths 
  

   deepl}- 
  furrowed 
  ; 
  the 
  two 
  stout 
  teeth 
  rufous. 
  Antennae 
  

   shining, 
  almost 
  glabrous. 
  Thorax 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   the 
  pronotum 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  fringed 
  

   thickh- 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  post-scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  

   much 
  longer 
  hairs. 
  The 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  with 
  

   short 
  stout 
  longitudinal 
  keels 
  all 
  over 
  ; 
  those 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  

   more 
  widely 
  separated 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  

  

  