202 ]Mr. F. Smitli's descriptions 
vertex ; the clypeus with two stout horiis, which arc 
obKquely truncate at their apex; the inaudibles very stout, 
and terminated by a strong bifid tooth. The thorax and 
legs Avith long pale fulvous pubescence, that on the tarsi 
ferruginous ; the claw-joints ferruginous ; the wings fusco- 
hyaline. Abdomen very convex, with a thin fulvous 
liubescence, and densely clothed beneath with ferruginous 
pubescence. 
Male. Rather smaller than the female ; the face with 
white pubescence ; the tarsi have the claAv-joint ferru- 
ginous; the abdomen black, with the apical margins of 
the segments testaceous. 
Hub. — Hiogo. 
Genus Megachile, Latr. ^ 
1. Aj)is disjinicta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 328. Antliopliora 
disjimcta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 374. Megachile disjuncta, 
St. Farg. Hym. ii. 331. 
Hab. — India, Mauritius, Hakodadi. 
V 
(__ — 2. Megachile inonticola, Smith, Cat. Hyni. Ins. 
Apidiv, 179, ? . 
Hab.— N. China, Silliet, Hakodadi, Hiogo. 
Genus Lithurgus, Latr. 
1. Lithurgus collaris. "^ 
Male. Length 5 J lines. Black : the face covered with 
cinereous pubescence. Thorax : the collar Avith cinereous 
pubescence ; beneath it inclines to fulvous, on the disk it 
is short and black ; the legs shining black, Avith the pos- 
terior femora incrassate ; the tibi;e are also stout, and, as 
Avell as the first joint of the tarsi, are fi'inged Avith short 
black pubescence ; Avings slightly fuscous, their nervures 
black. Abdomen shining, flattened above, Avith the pos- 
terior margins of the segments narroAvly fi-inged A\-ith 
short Avhite pubescence, more or less interrupted in the 
middle ; beneath Avith black pubescence, and the margins 
of the segments A\itli a cinereous fringe. 
Hab, — Hakodadi. 
This species closely resembles L. dentipes of India, but 
that insect has the thorax of the female rugose anteriorly. 
