48 EGYPTIAN AND 



Mandibles and antennae red, with black tips. Thorax with a tuft of 

 white hairs by each tegula; metathorax with white hairs on each 

 side. Legs red. Wings luteous, with tawny veins ; exterior half 

 blackish, with black veins. Length of the body 5i lines. 



Has most resemblance to M. rufipes, of West Africa, but differs 

 much from that species in the abdomen and in the wings. 



Akeek. 



237. Megachile inornata. Male and female. — Black. Head, 

 thorax and legs clothed with cinereous hairs. Hind borders of the 

 abdominal segments with bands of cinereous pubescence in the male 

 and of tawny pubescence in the female ; under side of the abdomen of 

 the female thickly clothed with whitish hairs ; tip of the male serrated, 

 deeply notched in the middle. Tarsi with tawny tips ; fore femora of 

 the male tawny beneath and at the tips ; fore tibise and fore tarsi of 

 the male pale yellow. Wings cinereous, blackish along the exterior 

 border ; veins black, tawny at the base ; stigma piceous. Length of 

 the body 5 — 6 lines. 



Allied to M. sericans, but the colour of the abdomen beneath is 

 different. 



Mount Sinai. 



938. Megachile inficita. Male. — Head and thorax clothed 

 with whitish hairs. Head with yellowish hairs on the front. 

 Mandibles red ; tips black. Abdomen with four bands of white 

 pubescence ; tip white, with six short spines. Legs red ; femora and 

 four posterior tibiae black above. Wings cinereous ; veins and stigma 

 black. Length of the body 4 lines. 

 Wady Ferran. 



239. Megachile oonficita. Male. — Black, thickly clothed with 

 yellowish cinereous hairs. Antennae dark red beneath. Abdomen 

 with a whitish band on the hind border of each segment ; tip with 

 six short spines. Legs red ; femora and tibiae striped with black. 

 Wings cinereous, broadly blackish along the exterior border; veins 

 and stigma black. Length of the body 4 lines. 



Cairo. 



240. Megachile despecta. Male and female. — Black. Head 

 and thorax clothed with whitish hairs. Abdomen with a band of 

 testaceous tomentum on the hind border of each segment ; under side 

 reddish, with bands of whitish pubescence ; tip with six small spines. 

 Legs red ; fore femora black beneath. Wings cinereous, broadly 



