474 APiD^. 



Hah. Throughout the North- West Proviuces and Bengal, not 

 ascending the hills to any height. $ . Leiujth 19-21 ; exj). 38- 

 42 mm. S • Len(/th 16-18 ; <;ay. 30-34 mm. 



828. Megachile elizabethsB, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax finely, closely, and regularly, abdomen 

 more sparsely punctured and shining ; clypeus broader than high, 

 convex at base, anteriorly widely emarginate, the middle incised, 

 with two slight projecting teeth ; mandibles with a longitudinal 

 groove running from the inside of the lower apical tooth, the 

 inner flat broad portion at apex sparsely punctured ; head not 

 quite so wide as the thoi-ax ; abdomen ovato-conical, the margins 

 of the segments depressed, the depressions medially much broader. 

 Black ; the sides of the face in front, the cheeks and thorax 

 anteriorly with a soft longish white pubescence, turning to f usco- 

 cinereous between the antennse and on the median segment 

 posteriorly ; the base of the abdomen and the convex pygidium 

 with a thin covering of fuscous hairs ; the pollen-brush very dense, 

 black, ferruginous red in the middle ; legs with black pubescence ; 

 wings fuscous with a purple effulgence. 



(S similar, smaller ; the pubescence on the clypeus and cheeks 

 very dense, the base of the 1st segment with a square patch and 

 broadly interrupted transverse bands at the apical margins of 

 segments 2-6 of the abdomen of white pubescence ; the bases of 

 the 2nd and following segments strongly constricted, the apex of 

 the 7th segment notched ; wings hyaline at base. 



Hab. Tenasserim. $ . Length 16-18 ; exp. 34-39 mm. S • 

 Length 14; exp. 29 mm. 



*829. Megachile carhonaria, Smith, Cat. \, p. 179, S ; Dall. Torr. 

 Cat. X, p. 423. 



" d" . Length 5^ Hnes ( = about 13 mm.). Black and shining, the 

 abdomen having in some lights a purple metallic iridescence ; th 

 face below the insertion of the antennae densely covered with 

 bright golden pubescence ; wings purple-black ; sides of the meta- 

 thorax covered with black pubescence ; disc of the thorax and the 

 abdomen above naked, the apical segment has its apex notched in 

 the middle. 



" Hab. Northern India (coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)." 



830. Megachile semivestita. 



Chalicodoma semivestita, Smith, Cat. i, p. 148, (^ . 



cJ . Head and thorax densely, the legs and abdomen sparsely 

 pubescent ; the tibiae and basal joints of the tarsi of the legs and 

 the abdomen finely and closely punctured, the individual hairs of 

 the sparse pubescence springing from each puncture ; mandibles 

 rather coarsely longitudinally striate. Head and thorax covered 

 with fulvous, the median segment broadly on the sides, the legs 

 and abdomen with black pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline, dark- 

 ening slightly along the costal margin of the fore wing. 



Hab. India {Smith). J . Length 17 ; exj). 32 mm. 



