90 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Type (with pea-green eyes) from Brisbane, 9-4-18 {Hacker). Also one (with 

 dark-red eyes, but otherwise tlie same) from Kuranda {Dodd). 



Megachile hsematogastra n. sp. 



Female. Length about 11.5 mm., robust, black ; ventral scopa bright ferru- 

 ginous, black on last segment and pale yellow at extreme base ; abdomen finely 

 punctured, not at all metallic, segments 2 to 5 with narrow entire fulvous hair-bands ; 

 eyes dark reddish ; face and front with bright fulvous hair, not covering the clypeus ; 

 mandibles broad, dark reddish subapically ; clypeus normal, except that the lower 

 margin is thickened and somewhat elevated, and the upper part of disc is convex, 

 highly polished and shining, sparsely punctured, while the lower part is distinctly 

 longitudinally striate, with punctures between the striae ; lower part of supraclyjjeal 

 area exposed and shining ; antennae black ; cheeks with fulvous hair, vertex with 

 black ; mesothorax and scutellum finely and extremely densely punctured, the 

 scutellum obtusely pointed at apical middle ; thorax with fulvous hair, but short 

 and black on disc of mesothorax, longer and black on scutellum (but a fulvous band 

 between the two), and blackish on disc of mesopleura ; tegulse black ; wings dusky ; 

 legs black, with partly pale and partly dark hair, on middle basitarsi ; dark reddish 

 on outer side, but clear red on inner ; hind basitarsi broad, wdth very bright red 

 hair covering inner side ; hind tibiae with short black hair on outer side, and whitish 

 on inner. 



Cairns District {F. P. Dodd). Very distinct from the known Australian species, 

 and rather approaching M. sliortlandi Ckll., from the Solomon Islands. 



Megachile mundifica n. sp. 



Female. Length about ll.o mm. ; parallel-sided but rather robust ; black, 

 including legs, antennae, and tegulae ; eyes blackish ; head thick and rounded ; 

 sides of face, front, and the broad cheeks with abundant white hair ; vertex with scanty 

 brownish hair ; mandibles broad, quadridentrate, the base covered with appressed 

 pale silky hair ; clypeus coarsely and closely punctured, the middle with a very 

 large squared excavation, within which are golden hairs, and on each side of which 

 the margin has the aspect of a broad rounded lobe ; vertex, mesothorax, and scutellum 

 very closely and densely punctured, but glistening ; scutellum and disc of meso- 

 thorax with red-brown hair ; a tuft of clear white hair above the base of each wing ; 

 only a very faint hair-band (hardly noticeable) between mesothorax and scutellum ; 

 sides of thorax with white hair ; wings dusky ; legs with white hair, pale reddish 

 on inner side of tarsi ; hind basitarsi not broadened ; abdomen with creamy-white 

 hair-bands on first three segments, on first interrupted sublaterally and represented 

 at sides by large triangular patches ; from apical margin of fourth segment to end 

 the abdomen is covered with pale fulvous hair, redder along margins of fourth and 

 fifth segments ; ventral scopa entirely white. 



National Park, Queensland, Pec, 1919 {Hacker). Resembles M. recisa Ckll.. 



