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segments slightly depressed, the depressed border arched ante- 

 riorly ; head, legs, and the 2nd and following 

 abdoiniual segments jet-black, with black 

 pubescence ; the thorax and basal abdominal 

 segment densely clothed with fulvous-red 

 pubescence; wings hyaline, broadly fuscescent 

 along their apical margins and yellowish at 

 base ; pollen-brush black. 



J similar ; abdomen narrower : head com- 

 paratively larger, the apical abdominal seg- 

 p.^ ,^l^ ment notched. 



Megachife monticola, Hah. Sylhet ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenas- 



§ . \. serim ; ]S"orth China. $ . Length 26-27 ; 



exj). 44 mm. S . Length 23-25 ; exp. 44 mm. 



846. Megachile badia, Bingh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 248, $ 



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

 head about as wide as the thorax ; clypeus broader than long, 

 with a T-shaped carina on its disc ; mandibles broad, delicately 

 longitudinally striate ; abdomen with the base of the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments slightly constricted. Black ; face up to the anterior 

 ocellus clothed with black pubescence ; thorax with brownish-black, 

 soft, rather long hair on the sides and on the median segment ; 

 legs black, claws of the tarsi and tibial calcaria castaneous ; abdomen 

 covered rather sparingly with black pubescence, the basal two 

 segments with narrow submarginal bands of fulvous-red pubes- 

 cence above ; pollen-brush black ; wings f ulvo-hyaline, with a 

 broad subfuscous margin. 



d similar ; the clypeus covered with dense w'hite, the face 

 between and below the bases of the antennae with smoky-\^hite 

 pubescence ; the pubescence on the thorax brownish black, with a 

 tinge of pale fulvous ; the base of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal seg- 

 ments more deeply constricted, the anal segment not incised at 

 apex, but denticulate ; wings somewhat lighter in colour than in 

 the female *. 



Hub. Pegu Hills, Burma ; Tenasserim. § . Length 17-20 ; 

 exp. 29-33 mm. d . Length 16 ; exi^. 32 mm. 



847. Megachile bhavanse, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely pubescent, and finely 

 and closely punctured under the pubescence ; clypeus slightly 

 convex, subtriangular, the anterior margin slightly arched, nearly 

 transverse ; abdomen above depressed, somewhat flat. Black, with 

 black pubescence; the thorax and basal two abdominal segments 

 with rich fulvous pubescence, turning paler on the median segment ; 



* ' Radoszkowsky (Wiadom. z nauk Przyrocl. pt. ii (1882), p. 79) has a 

 M. lichteitstebii, from Sikhim, wliieh may be identical with tlie above, in which 

 case his name would liave priority; but I have failed to >deutil'y his species. 



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