MBGACHILE. 483 



a pale fulvous-red colour ; wings flavo -hyaline, with a broad 

 fuscous apical border. 



c5' similar, but the head larger and broader proportionately ; the 

 pubescence not so dense ; it is white on the clypeus, face, thorax 

 beneath, and legs, olivaceous on the thorax above and the margins 

 of segments 1-4 above ; wings darker than in the female. 



Hah. Ceylon; Tenasserim. $. Length 12-\Z; exp. 22-2'^ vam. 

 <S . Length 11; exj). IS mm. 



851. Megachile lanata. 



Apis lanata, Fabr. Ent. Si/d. ii, p. 335. 



Mep:achile lanata, Lepel. Hym. ii, p. .342: Smith, Cat. i, p. 177. 



Megachile proxima, Smith, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii, p. 192, § J. 



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

 and pubescent ; the clypeus subluuate in shape, anteriorly trans- 

 verse. Black ; the head, except the cly])eus broadly in the 

 middle, the thorax, and basal two abdominal segments above 

 covered with dense, and the legs with thin fulvous-red pubescence ; 

 the apical margins of segments 3-5 above \x\t\i narrow transverse 

 fasciae of white pubescence ; pollen-brush white ; antennae and legs 

 nigro-piceous ; wings flavo-hyaline, the apical margin broadly 

 fuscescent. 



Var. The fulvous-red pubescence extending thinly on to the 

 3rd and 4th abdominal segments, and only the 5tli segment with 

 a white fascia, or with the fascia on the 3rd segment red in the 

 middle, white laterally, the apical segment with white pubescence 

 on both sides. 



S similar, smaller, the pubescence on the clypeus and front 

 paler, more golden in tint. 



Hah. Throughout India, Burma, Tenasserim, and Ceylon. 

 2 . Length 14-15 ; e^vp. 26-28 mm. (S . Length 12-13 ; exp. 

 22 mm. 



852. Megachile umbripennis. (PI. Ill, fig. 12.) 



Smith, Cat. i, p. 175, § . 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen closely punctured and pubes- 

 cent ; the disc of the clypeus, the vertex except round the ocelli, 

 and the apical two-thirds of the 2nd and following abdominal 

 segments bare; clypeus convex, transverse anteriorly; the margins 

 of abdominal segments 1-5 narrowly depressed. Black ; front, 

 thorax, basal abdominal segment, and the base narrowly of the 

 2nd with dense fulvous pubescence ; the 3rd segment with a 

 narrow fringe of the same generally much obliterated, 4th and 5th 

 segments with a narrow white lateral fascia ; legs with black, the 

 tarsi beneath of the posterior legs with fulvous pubescence; pollen- 

 brush white with the apical portion black ; wings hyaline at base, 

 fuscous for the apical four-fifths of their length. 



Hub. Nepal ; Sikhim ; Tenasserim. § . Length 13 : erp. 27 mm. 



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