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et secundum aciem attingente et ibi tomento nifo ornato; segmentis 2 — 5 basi quoque vestitis; valviilis nigro- 

 hispidis, quandoque segmento ventrali quinto lateribus nigro-hirto. L. 10 — 11 mm. 



I ? de Batah IX 97, et i ? de Lastourville IX 98 (BouYSSOU); coli. Vachal. 



Kongo. 



Megachile robertiana Cam. 

 1905 Megachile robertiana C-mieron, ?, in: Tr.-S.-Afr. Phil. 80c., Vol. XV, pag. 248. 



?. Black; the hair on the head, thorax, apex of abdominal segments, and the ba.sal half of the scopa, 

 clear white; the apical half of the scopa bright red; wings clear hyaline, the nervures and Stigma black. 

 L. 7 — 8 mm, Br. 3 mm. 



Mandibles, except at apex, thickly covered with white hair; behind the apex is a tuft of reddish pubes- 

 cence; subapical tooth shorter and more broadly rounded than the apical; behind it is a broad, shallow incision. 

 Clypeus strongly and closely punctured, roundly convex; its apex in the centre is slightly roundly incised and 

 depressed, this central part being narrower than the sides. The face is not so strongly nor so closely 

 punctured as the clypeus; the front and vertex are more strongly and quite as closely punctured as tlie clypeus; 

 the latter is not quite so closely punctured down the centre. Head as wide as the thorax, which is closely and 

 uniformly punctured, except on the metanotum, where the punctuation is wcaker and sparser. Legs black; tlie 

 hair white except on the under side of the tarsi, where it is bright red; the metatarsus not quite so wide as 

 apex of the tibiae, 3 — 4 times longer than broad; tegulae black. 



This species look very like the Indian M. hera. 



Kapland — Pearston ; Grahamstown. 



ßlegaehile saganeltana Grib. 

 1894 Megachile saganeitana Gribodo, d', in: Bull. Soc. entom. Ital., Vol. XXVI, p. 300. 



(?. Submagna robusta nigra opaca, facie densissime longe albo-sericeo subflavescenti pilosa, capite 

 ceterum fusco medio piloso; thorace supra fusco-rufescenti-, utrinque et infra nigro-, postice 

 ferrugineo sat dense piloso (pedibus nigro-, vel fusco-pilosis) ; segmentis abdominis dorsalibus 5 primis dense 

 f errugineo-villosis, segmento 5. margine setis nigris intermixtis; segmento 6. griseo squamoso et 

 nigro (nonnihil quoque in margine segmenti 5.; ventre fusco breviter piloso; alis hyalinis apice subinfuscatis 

 antennarum articulo ultimo haud dilatato; thorace abdomineque ubique uniformiter regulariter densissime 

 punctulato-granosis ; coxis duobus anticis processu vel laminula spiniformi apice rotundata armatis; 

 tarsorum duorum anticorum articulis tribus primis dilatatiusculis, supra dense argenteo- 

 villosis (pilis stratis) margine postico densissime sat longe nigrofimbriatis ; femoribus omnibus perpaullulum 

 tumidiusculis ; segmento dorsali 6. utrinque fortiter unispinoso apice ut plurimum in genere acute, marginato- 

 prominulo, hoc margine crenulato-subdenticulato. L. 16 mm. 



Saganeiti (Eritrea), Nordostafrika. 



Megachile sarna Cam. 

 1905 Megachile sarna Cameron, J, in: Tr.-S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 252. 



d. Black; the head, thorax, apex of abdominal segments, and the base of last abdominal segment 

 broadly densely covered with snow- white hair; wings clear hyaUne, nervures and stigma black; apex of'Iast 

 abdominal segment roundly, deeply incised, the incision bounded by 2 longish, stout teeth and with 2 much 

 smaller teeth on either side, outer tooth being smaller than the inner one. L. 6—7 mm. 



