MEGACHILE. 485 



and slightly constricted. Black ; the feoiora, tibiyc, and tarsi of 

 the legs, and the apical margins of the abdominal segments narrowly- 

 testaceous red ; the clypeus, A'ertex of the head, and bases of seg- 

 ments 1-5 of the abdomen broadly bare, without pubescence ; the 

 clypeus anteriorly and at base, the sides of the face in front, the 

 sides of the thorax and median segment, and the femora beneath 

 with long sordid w hite pubescence ; the front below the ocelh, the 

 thorax above, and the margins of the abdominal segments with 

 fulvous pubescence ; wings flavo-hyaline, their apical margins 

 broadly fuscescent. 



Hub. The type and only specimen in the British Museum is 

 labelled India, c? . Length I'Z ; djy. 22 mm. 



This is probably the male of M. jienetrata. 



*856. Megachile vestita, Smith, Cat. i, p. 176, 2 ; Ball. Ton: Cat. x, 

 p. 402. 



"$. Length 6 Unes (=about 13-14 mm.). Black, the face 

 densely covered with bright yellow pubescence ; tlie mandibles 

 short, stout, longitudinally grooved, and armed with three blunt 

 teeth, pubescent at their base and ciliated with bright yellow hairs ; 

 the cheeks thickly covered with pale ochraceous pubescence. Thorax 

 — the disc thinly covered with bright yellow pubescence, densely 

 so on the sides, beneath it is cinereous ; the legs densely covered 

 with pale yellow pubescence, on the tarsi beneath it is fulvous, 

 the calcaria testaceous, claws ferruginous, their tips black ; wings 

 subhyaUne. Abdomen short, broad, and pointed at the apex, the 

 base, sides, and margins of the segments have a pale yellow 

 pubescence ; beneath the pollen-brush is pale yellow in the middle 

 and bright fulvous at the sides. 



" Ilab. India (coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.)." 



* 857. Megachile cephalotes, Smith, Cat. i, p. 179, 2 (^. 



2 . Head and thorax rather coarsely punctured, the punctures 

 on the disc of the mesonotum running into transverse striae iu 

 certain lights ; the base of abdominal segments 1-5 smooth, the 

 margins depressed, the depressions arched anteriorly in the middle 

 and closely punctured; head subquadrate, broad, broader than the 

 thorax, the front between the antenna? convex : the clypeus short, 

 subtriangulur, depressed inwards, its anterior margin broadly but 

 slightly emarginate, almost transverse ; mandibles long, narrow, 

 and curved. Black, the abdomen with a metallic tint; a fringe 

 along the apical margin of the clypeus, the face on both sides, 

 the sides of the thorax and median segment, the legs, a square 

 patch on each side at the base of the 1st abdominal segment, 

 a transverse narrow fascia at the base of the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments above, and an abbreviated line on each side at the base 

 of the 4th and 5th segments, of snow-\A'hite pubescence; the pollen- 

 brush w hite. 



