490 APiD^. 



fringe on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th abdominal segments above with 

 ghttering ferruginous golden hairs ; polleu-brush golden yellow ; 

 wings h_yaline, fuscescent along their apical margins. 

 Hah. Tenasserim. 5 . Length 9-10 ; exp. 17 mm, 



868. Megachile moelleri, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax densely and coarsely punctured, the 

 punctures on the mesonotum and scutellum running into irregular 

 waved, coarse, transverse strias ; clypeus subtriangular, coarsely 

 reticulate, anteriorly ti'ansverse in the middle, oblique at the sides, 

 the margin slightly recurved, the disc with a T-shaped carina ; 

 mesonotum raised, flat ; a deep obliquely diverging smooth groove 

 above the tegula? on each side ; the tegulae and the median seg- 

 ment posterioi'ly smooth ; abdomen with deep transverse grooves 

 at the base of segments 2-5 above ; basal segment very finely and 

 closely punctured; segments 2-5 with their margins broadly 

 depressed, densely and more coarsely punctured ; the narrow 

 basal portion between the groove and the depression on the 4th 

 and 5th segments smooth ; apical margin of the 5th and the whole 

 of the 6th segment above densely pubescent. Black, a little 

 fuscous pubescence between the antennae and on the sides 

 posteriorly of the median segment ; the apical margin of the 5th 

 and the whole of the 6th segment above with dense short clay- 

 coloured pubescence ; pollen-brush ferruginous red ; wings hyaline, 

 slightly fuscescent. 



Hah. Eangit Valley, Sikhim, 1000 ft. $ . Length 14-15 ; exp. 

 24 mm. 



869. Megachile steloides, Bmgh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc x, 1896, 



p. 198, pi. 1, fig. 5, §. 



5 . Head and abdomen finely and closely punctured, the 

 margins of the segments of the latter narrowly smooth and 

 shining ; thorax more densely and less finely punctured, and 

 having a granular appearance; clypeus antei'iorly very slightly 

 bisiuuate, bluntly carinate down the middle ; thorax with the 

 scutellum strongly projecting backwards, the margin notched, 

 overhanging the metathorax and median segment ; abdomen broad, 

 subcordate. Black and shining, the tibiae and tarsi of the legs and 

 the apical two abdominal segments bright testaceous brown ; 

 pollen-brush testaceous yellow, with a golden tint in certain lights ; 

 wings hyaline, darkening to light fuscous along the apical margins. 

 Hah. Eangit Valley, Sikhim. $ . Length 13-14 ; exj). 28- 

 30 mm. 



Genus ANTHIDIUM. 

 Anthidium, Fabr. Si/st. Piez. p. 364 (1804). 

 Type, A. manicatum, Fabr. 

 Baiige. Both hemispheres. 

 Head nearly as wide as the thorax ; ocelli in a triangle on the 



