152 Mr. F. Smith on some new Genera and Species 



Subfamily Dasygastr^. 

 Genus Megachile, Latr. 



1. Megachile Tithonus. 



M. nigra; capite ttoraceque pube nigTa vestitis, abdomine dense fulvo 

 pubescente, basi nigro ; alis nigro-fiiscis. 



Female. Lengtb 10 lines. Black ; the head, thorax, legs and base 

 of the abdomen densely clothed with short black pubescence; the 

 second and following segments are clothed, above and beneath, with 

 bright ferruginous pubescence ; at the extreme base of the second seg- 

 ment is an intennixture of black pubescence ; the anterior margin of 

 the ch'peus truncate, with a slight point, or tubercle, produced in the 

 middle of the margin ; the mandibles long, stout, and armed at their 

 apex with two strong acute teeth; the wings brown-black, with a 

 slight violet iridescence. 



Hah. Knysna (South Africa). Walter Trimen, Esq. In the British 

 Museum Collection. 



Subfamily Scopulipedes. 

 Genus Epicharis, Klug. 



1. Ejyicharis elegans. 



E. capite thoraceque nigris, pube atra vestitis ; abdomine flavo. 



Female. Length 9 lines. The head, thorax and legs black, the 

 vertex and thorax densely clothed with short black pubescence ; the 

 mandibles orange-yellow at their apex, the tips black ; the flagellum 

 obscm'ely nifo-piceous beneath; wings fiisco-hyaline and iridescent; 

 the posterior femora and basal joint of the tarsi densely clothed with 

 broad scopse of bright pale-fulvous pubescence. Abdomen honey- 

 yellow, the extreme base black; the basal segment with a smaU 

 fuscous stain in the centre. 



Male. About the same size as the female, but differs in having dark 

 cinereous pubescence on the thorax ; the scape of the antennae in front, 

 the clypeus, sides of the face, labrum and base of the mandibles yel- 

 lowish-white ; the posterior femora and basal joint of the tarsi outside, 

 and the knees yellow ; abdomen as in the female. 



Very like E. hicolor, but has the basal joint of the posterior tarsi 

 broad, margined within, and produced into a stout spine at the apex. 

 Hah. Mexico. M. Sall^. In the Collection of the British Museum. 



Subfamily Sociales. 



1. Bonihus festivus. 

 B. niger, pubescens ; thorace supra abdominisque segmentis duobus api- 

 calibus pube alba vestitis ; alis fuscis. 



Female. Length 13 lines. Black and pubescent. The head with 



