THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 100. APR[L 1916. 



XXX. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXXI. 

 By T. D. A. Cocke iiELL^ University of Colorado. 



Megachile tasmanica, sp. n. 



1^ . — Length about 7'6 mm. 



Black with white hair, long on face, cheeks, and nnder 

 side of thorax ; on front the very long hairs are stained 

 with brownish, and the scnnty hair on disc of mesotliorax is 

 somewhat brownish ; head large, facial quadrangle much 

 longer than broad; mandibles black ; clypeus with a dense 

 beard of pure white hair, but upper part exposed, very 

 densely punctured, but with a smooth shining spot ; antennre 

 slender, l)lack ; mesothorax closely and minutely punctured, 

 without hair-spots, except that there is a small tuft of white 

 Lair behind each tegula ; tegulse piceous. Wings dusky 

 greyish, stigma and nervures black; anterior coxse covered 

 with white hair and without s[)ines ; anterior tarsi formed 

 essentially as in M. leeuivinensis, M. -Waldo, the lobe on 

 second joint large, oval, with a large black spot on a white 

 ground. Abdomen short and broad, densely punctured, 

 the tirst segment with a tuft of white hair on each side, 

 segments 2 to 4 with thin apical hair-bands, weak in middle ; 

 fifth segment with thin glittering white hair ; sixth briefly 

 bidentate, the teeth not far apart. The anterior tarsi, and 

 anterior tibiae at apex, are ferruginous. 



Hab. George Town, Tasmania, Nov. 19, 1914 (F. M. 

 Littler, 2248) . 



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