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Apex of abdomen with 8 teeth, the central 2 the langer, stout, the space between rounded at the base, 

 as long as vvide, 2. smaller and sharper, the outer 2 shorter and biunter, 3. separated from the 2 by a greater 

 distance than it is from the 4.; outside the 4. is a short, blunt tubercle; mandibles with 2 distinct large teeth; 

 2. shorter than the i. and not obliquely pointed like it. Head, pro- and mesothorax closely punctured, the 

 metanotal area finely rugose, opaque; the rest closely punctured, more closely and rugosely in the centre than 

 on the sides. The penultimate segment is thickly covered with long black hair; the last above entircly with 

 white pubescence, as are also the apices of the others. Segments are closely punctured, the apical more strongly 

 and closely than the others; fore legs not dentate. 



Kapland — Brak Kloof. 



Megachile temora Cam. 

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



$. Black; the hair on the head and thorax white, on the apices of the abdominal segments of a clearer 

 white ; the abdominal scopa bright red ; the hair on the tarsi and apex of tiblae red, on the rest of the legs white. 

 Wings hyaline, slightly violaceous at the apex, the stigma and nervures black. L. 1 1 mm. 



Mandibles with three apical teeth; the apical sharper and longer than the others; behind the third is a 

 short, less distinct one; the punctuation is strong and close; the hair sparse and pale red. Face and clypeus 

 closely, and strongly punctured; the apex of the latter transverse, but with an irregulär edge; the face more 

 closely, and the front and Vertex still more closely punctured. Thorax closely punctured, the punctures forming 

 almost reticulations in places; a smooth, narrow furrow down the centre of the mesonotum; the hair on the 

 pleurae and metanotum long and dense. Metanotal area coarsely alutaceous; the rest finely closely reticulated. 

 Apex of hind tibiae smooth, depressed, with a raised broad keel in the centre; metatarsus slightly narrower than 

 the apex of tibiae, four times longer than it is broad; its outer side at the base with a rounded depression or 

 incision; calcaria longish, curved, testaceous. The hair on the under side of the tarsi is long, thick, and 

 bright red. 



This species is not unlike BI. imitata Sm., as named for me by the late Mr. Frederick Smith ; that 

 has the mandibular teeth broader, especially the apical one at the apex; the punctuation is coarser, and the face 

 is smooth in the centre; the pubescence on the mesonotum has a fulvous tinge, and it wants the central 

 impressed line; the basal half of the scopa is white, the pile on the under side of the tarsi is not bright red, 

 and the apex of the clypeus is straight, not with an irregulär edge. In M. imitata the apical mandibular tooth 

 is large, broad, bluntly rounded at the apex; the second is small, more oblique, and bluntly rounded; it is 

 followed by two broad, rounder projections. 



Kapland. 



Megachile tricarinata Bingh. 

 1903 Megachile tricarinata Bingham, 5, in: Ann. Mag. Natural Hist., Vol. XII, p. 50 (?). 



?. Black, very closely and somewhat coarsely punctured, punctures running into reticulations on the face 

 in front, on the Vertex of the head, and on the scutellum; sides of the face along the inner orbits of the eyes, 

 sides of the thorax beneath the wings, a transverse line at the junction of the mesonotum and scutellum, the 

 median segment and narrow transverse bands, slightly broadened laterally, at the base and apical margin of the 

 I. and on the apical margins of the 2. — 4. segment covered with snow- white pubescence; scopa yellowish-white 

 legs with scattered snow-white hairs, tarsi with shining ferruginous pubescence. Head from the front nearl)' 

 circular; eyes large, but not prominent; face flat in front, inner orbits of the eyes parallel; mandibles grooved 



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