200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
thence more lightly so toapex. Hind wings narrow, with two distinct 
rows of discal cilia along cephalic margin, the caudal marginal cilia 
much longer than thegreatest width of the blade but slightly shorter 
than the longest marginal cilia of the fore wing, the latter with no 
oblique line of cilia from stigmal knob and bearing about a dozen lines 
of ciliation which is in more or less regular lines. Funicle a little 
less than half the length of the club, whose distal joint is longest, 
subequal to the pedicel, the other three joints plainly wider than long. 
Tarsal joints of moderate length. 
Male.—Not known. 
Described from two female specimens labelled “‘ From eggs 
of Cicada sp.?. Pasoeroean. 8/9/1913. On leaves of sugar cane.” 
P. van der Goot. 
Habitat.—Pasoeroean, Java. 
Types.—The above specimenson aslide. In the Queensland 
Museum, Brisbane. 
A NEW LEAF-CUTTING BEE FROM BRAZIL. 
By T. D. A. CocKxErELu. 
I have recently received from the British Museum for exa- 
mination three species of Megachile collected in Rio Grande do 
Sul, Brazil. Two of these prove to be M. squalens, Hal., and M. 
lentifera, Vach., but the third is new, and may be described as 
follows : 
Megachile scopulipes, n. sp. 
6. Length a little over 10 mm.; black, with long white hair, 
which has a creamy tint on face and thorax above; vertex, dise of 
mesothorax, and a patch on upper part of mesopleura with black 
hair ; mandibles black; antennz long and slender, entirely dark, not 
at all dilated at end; mesothorax dull, densely punctured, the 
punctures well separated on middle of disc; no line of white hair in 
suture between mesothorax and scutellum; middle and hind legs 
black or piceous, but anterior ones ferruginous, the femora mainly 
black behind, the tibize with a dusky shade on outer side ; coxal spines 
black, small and sharp, curved, with a patch of stiff orange-red hair 
in front of each; anterior tarsi simple, but the basitarsus somewhat 
thickened posteriorly, and having behind a very broad and dense 
brush of rufo-fulvous hair, of the type seen in species with dilated 
tarsi; middle tarsi with very long pale fulvous hair; hind tarsi thick 
with shorter rufo-fulvous hair on inner face; hind femora not 
incrassate ; tegule small, piceous ; wings brownish, the costal side of 
the marginal cell with a dark fuscous band; basal nervure meeting 
transverso-medial (in M. squalens it falls some distance short of it) ; 
abdomen short and broad, hairy, with distinct hair-bands; fifth 
segment covered with reddish-brown hair; sixth retracted, not hairy, 
