362 "• Friese, 280 



Megachile africana Mocs. 



1879 Megachile terminata Smith, J?, in: Descr. new species Hym., p. 62 [nee Mora-v^itz]. 

 1887 „ africana Mocsauv, in: Termösz. Füzet., Bd. XI, p. 19. 



$. Black. The face vvith bright whitish pubescence; on the anterior portion of the clypeus, and also 

 above the Insertion of the antennae, it is fulvous. Thorax above clothed with short fulvo-ochraceous pubescence, 

 beneath it is dense and inclines to cinereous; the apical joints of the tarsi femiginous and with bright ferruginous 

 pubescence; wings hyahne, with a dark fuscous cloud beyond the enclosed cells. Abdomen with the segments 

 one to four clothed with bright fulvous pubescence, the two apical ones with black; beneath with dense bright 

 fulvous pubescence, the apical segment with black. L. 7 lines (= 15 mm). 



(J. Black, The face with dense silvery-white pubescence, that on the vertex of the head and disk of 

 the thorax fulvous; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nerviu-es and Stigma ferruginous; the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, 

 the anterior pair of the latter dilated and covered with pale fulvous pubescence, nearly white; beneath are two 

 oblong black spots; the anterior coxae armed with a long blunt spine. Abdomen thinly covered with fulvous 

 pubescence; the apical margins of the segments with fulvous fasciae, the apical margin of the terminal segment 

 denticulate. L. 6V4 lines (= 13 mm). 



Südafrica, Burghersdorp. 



d? bei WiUowmore durch Dr. H. Brauns im Januar gefangen. 



Megachile ungulata Sm. 



1853 Megachile ungulata Smith, <?, in: Catal. Hym. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 162, n. 58. 

 1853 „ apiformis Smith, J, ebenda. Vol. I, p. 162 n. 59. 



S- Bl^ck, head broader than the thorax ; the face densely covered with a bright pale yellow pubescence. 

 on the Vertex it inclines to fulvous; on the cheeks, thorax and legs beneath it is of a very pale bright yellow; 

 apex of the mandibles ferruginous; legs dark rufo-testaceous, the latter slightlj' dilated and fringed with white 

 pubescence; apical joints of the tarsi bright ferruginous, the claw-joints as long as the rest of the tarsi, tips of 

 the claws black ; posterior tibiae incrassate. Abdomen short and having at the base some long fulvous pubes- 

 cence; the sides of the 3 basal segments pale rufo-testaceous, which is the colour of the abdomen beneath; 

 margins of the 3 apical segments above narrowly testaceous; towards the apex the pubescence is fuscous, inter- 

 mixed with fulvous, 6. segment notched in the middle. L. 4V2 lines (= 9V2 rnm). 



Kap. 



?. Head and thorax black, on the sides of the face, along the margins of the ej^es, pubescence is short 

 and white, below the insertion of the antennae are some long ochraceous hairs, on the vertex the pubescence is 

 fuscous; mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax above clothed with obscure yellow pubescence, at the sides 

 of the metathorax it is paler and beneath cinereous; legs ferruginous, their pubescence cinereous, that on the 

 tarsi beneath is fulvous; wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at the apical margins. The basal segment of the 

 abdomen rufo-testaceous, the apical margins of the other segments also rufo-testaceous, each one much more 

 narrowly so towards the apex; poUenbrush is very pale fulvous. L. 5 lines (= 10V2 rnm). 



Kap. 



Ferner von Algoa-Bai erhalten, Brauns leg. im Februar; von Ikutha (Deutsch-Ostafrika) mehrfach, auch 

 die Zellen, welche wie bei den europäischen Arten in Blattröhren unter Steinen und Baumrinde angelegt waren ; 

 bei Tanga waren diese sogar in einem alten Pfeifenkopf der Neger angelegt (KaraSEK leg.). 



