478 APID.T;. 



839. MegacMle fraterna*, Smith, Cat. \, p. 178, $ . 



5 . Head and thorax very denselv and somewhat finely 



punctured, rugose ; mandibles very broad at apox, rugosely striate, 

 with four large strong teeth, and two small 

 protuberances on the inner side; clypeus convex, 

 semicircular, arched above, transverse below, and 

 fringed with stiff bristly hairs ; head as wide as 

 the thorax or slightly wider ; scutellnm more 

 coarsely punctured than the rest of the thorax. 

 Head and thorax iet-black, with black pubescence 

 on the front between the antennae, along the sides 

 Fig. 159. Qf ^}-,g mesonotum, and on the pleurae and legs ; on 



fraterna^ Q^ , the median segment posteriorly the pubescence is 

 fuscoas, on the inside of the posterior tibiae and 



tarsi fulvous ; the tibial calcaria of the posterior legs ferruginous ; 



abdomen clothed with dense fulvo-ferrugiuous pubescence ; the 



pollen-brush golden yellow ; wings flavo-hyaline at base, broadly 



fuscous at apex. 



Hah. India (SmitJi) ; Burma ; Tenasserim (common). $ . 



Length 17-20 ; ex^. 2S-32 mm. 



840. Megachile quartinae, Gribodo, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2») i, 1884, 

 p. 352, 2. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen closely and finely punctured, the 

 punctures on the thorax above running into oblique anteriorly 

 divergent fine striae : clypeus semicii'cular, anteriorly truncate, the 

 margin obscurely subdentate ; abdomen wdth the apical margins 

 of segments 1-5 broadly depressed, the depressions pubescent, 

 punctured under the pubescence and anteriorly arched, the base of 

 the segments smooth, impunctate. Black, a little black pubescence 

 on both sides of the face ; thorax and abdomen covered more or 

 less densely with a rich short ferruginous-red pubescence, which is 

 sparse on the disc of the mesonotum and forms transverse bands 

 on the abdomen ; legs nearly bare, the tarsi, especially on the 

 inside, with a thickish covering of short ferruginous pubescence ; 

 pollen-brush pale golden yellow ; Avings bright fulvo-hyaline, 

 broadly fnscescent along their apical margins. 



Hah. Upper Burma; Tenasserim. $. Length 11-14: •. exp.22- 

 25 mm. 



The specimens I procured in Tenasserim are darker than those 

 from Upper Burma appear to be from the description. 



* M. qribodei, Radoszkowsky (Wiadom. z nauk Przyrod. pt. ii (1882), p. 80), 

 from Sikhim, seems to me to be a emaller form of this species. 



