286 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



a faint fulvous tinge ; the stigma and nervures dark rufous. ? . 

 Length, 14-15 mm. 



Ferozepore (Col. C. G. Nurse). 



Clypeus shining, ahiiost bare, distinctly irregularly punctured; the 

 punctures on the lower side more elongate and larger than on the 

 upper ; in the middle, commencing near the top, is a wide, shallow, 

 irregular, longitudinal furrow ; the apex projects, and is depressed 

 above the projecting part. The labrum is large and projecting ; there 

 is a wide and deep furrow on either side ; and in the centre, on the 

 apical two- thirds, is a deep furrow with oblique sides, which make the 

 furrow much wider on the top. Apex of mandibles piceous. The 

 vertex is closely, uniformly punctured ; the front is much more strongly 

 punctured, but not quite so closely ; its upper half is deeply furrowed. 

 Thorax entirely and thickly covered with white hair ; the mesonotum 

 is shining and is rather strongly, but not very closely, punctured. 

 The basal areae of the median segment bear stout longitudinal keels ; 

 its apex is bounded by a stout keel, so that there is formed a row of 

 squarish areas; the apex of the segment has a vertical slope. The hair 

 on the legs is long and glistening ; that oii the outer side is brighter 

 and more silvery in tint than on the inner side. The amount of red 

 on the legs probably varies, and is almost hid by the black hair. 

 Abdomen black ; the apices of the segments obscure piceous, and 

 thickly covered with a broad band of white pubescence ; the base of 

 the basal segment is broadly covered with white pubescence ; the last 

 segment is thickly covered above with long black, stiff pubescence ; 

 the basal segments are narrowly banded with white pubescence. 



s^Megachile confluenta, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the hair on the head, thorax, and legs white, tinged with 

 grey; the ventral scape bright red ; that on the under side of the tarsi 

 of a paler red ; wings hyaline, tinged with violaceous, especially 

 towards the apex ; the nervures black. Mandibles with a broad, 

 shallow, rounded, curved incision beyond the middle, without distinct 

 teeth ; the apex bluntly rounded. 5 . Length, 8-9 mm. 



Luirdu, Sarawak, Borneo ; June. 



Clypeus closely, somewhat strongly punctured throughout ; the 

 apex transverse, except at the outer edges, which are roundly curved. 

 Face more closely and much less strongly punctured, except on a small 

 semicircular space on the centre of the apex ; the sides of the clypeus 

 with dense long white pubescence, the centre much less thickly haired. 

 The puncturation is close, distinct, less strong on the metanotum than 

 elsewhere. Back of abdomen finely, closely, less strongly punctured 

 than the thorax. The hinder ocelli are separated from each other by 

 about the same distance as they are from the eyes. 



Characteristic of this species are the mandibles, which 

 become gradually narrowed to a bluntly rounded point without 

 teeth, not broad and oblique there as in, e. g. M. alticola and 

 M. mcera. 



