484 AT^VlJE. 



853. Megachile amputata, Smit/i, Jour. Linn. Soc 18/58, p. 4.5, $. 



? ^Mi'fjrachile fuho-fasciata, Rudoszk. Wiadom. z naitk Przyrod. pt. ii 

 (1882), p. 81. 



$ . Head (the clypeus excepted), thorax, and basal two seg- 

 ments of the abdomen densely pubescent ; the clypeus closely 

 and finely punctured, with a medial vertical smooth space, its 

 anterior margin trans\erse, roundly and narrowly emargiuate iu 

 the middle, the sides of the emargination produced into short 

 teeth ; the apical four segments of the abdomen closely and very 

 minutely punctured, their bases narrowly smooth and constricted. 

 Black; the sides of the face, the front and vertex of the head, the 

 thorax, the basal two abdominal segments, and transverse narrow 

 fasciae on segments 3-5 with fulvous-red pubescence ; the fasciae 

 on the 5th very often absent ; the bases of segments 3-5 and 

 the whole of the 6th covered with thin black pubescence-, antennae 

 beneath and legs rufo-testaceous, the latter clothed with a thin 

 fulvous-red pubescence and having the posterior tarsi generally 

 black or rufo-fuscous ; pollen-brush pale fulvous, on the apical 

 two segments black ; wings fusco- often flavo-hyaline. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Tenasserim ; Borneo. $. Length 15-17; e.rp. 

 26-30 mm. 



854. Megachile penetrata, Smith, New Sp. Hym. B. M. p. 67, 2 . 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and regularly punctured, 

 the vertex of the head, the mesonotum, and scutellum bare; 

 clypeus slightly convex, subtriangular, its anterior margin lightly 

 emai'ginate in the middle; abdomen with the bases of segments 

 2-5 lightly but distinctly constricted. Black ; the clypeus, front, 

 cheeks, sides of the thorax, the sides and apex of the median 

 segment, the legs, base of the abdomen, and transverse bands on 

 segments 1-5 covered with pale fulvous pubescence : pollen-brush 

 bright fulvous, the pubescence on the cheeks slightly hoary white ; 

 wings light flavo-hyaline. 



Hah. Dehra Dun. 2 . Leiujth 17; exp. 32 mm. 



855. Megachile buddhae, Dall. Ton: Cat. x, p. 42.3. 

 Megachile rufipes, Smith (nee Fabr.), Cat. i, p. 177, S ■* 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely and very finely punc- 

 tured and pubescent ; the head wider than the thorax, large, 

 subquadrate, emarginate posteriorly ; eyes with their inner orbits 

 parallel ; the apical margins of abdominal segments 1-4 depres^ed 



* The following species, uninown to lue, is given by Smith (Cat. i, p. 177) 

 as from India with a query. 



" Megachile i7mfatriv.—Levgih 8 lines. The face, vertex, and metathorax 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence, a iVinge of the same coloiu- on the anterior 

 femora beneath, that on the cheeks is paler ; the thorax beneath, its sides, and 

 also the metathorax and legs black ; the abdomen entirely black, pubescent 

 above, very densely so beneath. 



•• Hah. India ? (coll. W. H. L. Walcott, Esq.)." 



