the Apidse in the British Museum. 333 



narrow apical fascia3 on tergites 1-4, and the legs clothed 

 with whitish pubescence ; scopa silvery wliite. Tergite and 

 sternite 6 reddisli, the pubescence pale golden. 

 Wings hyaline. 



Ym. 2. 



Megachile longiceps, J • Fi'out view of head. 



Head, viewed from the front, very long, about 1^ as long 

 as broad ; mandibles robust, the cutting-edge without teeth, 

 their surface with one distinct carina; clypeus broader than 

 long, shallowly emarginate at apex ; abdomen parallel-sided, 

 tergites 2-4 with shallow transverse furrows near their base. 

 The whole covered with small even punctures, except the 

 enclosed space at base of median segment, the truncation of 

 tergite 1, and the tegulae, which are irapunctate. 



Length 8^ mm. 



S.W. Australia : Yallingup, 23rd Dec. 1913-23rd Jan. 

 1914 (type), 3 ? ? ; Busselton, 24th-27th Jan. 1914 {R. E. 

 Turner), 4 ? ? . 



This little species bears a strong resemblance to M. apicata, 

 Smith, from Adelaide and West Australia, and M. clyi:>eatn, 

 Smith, from West Australia. From the former it may be 

 distiiiguisiied by its peculiarly long head (viewed from the 

 front) and fiom the latter by its normal clypeus, that of 

 M. clypeaia having two striking tubercles. 



24. Megachile suhferox, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; facie, pleuris, segmento mediano, tergitibus 1-4 fasciis 

 apicalibus plus minusve iuterruptis, pallida pilosis ; scopa yen- 

 trali alba ; tergite 6 rufo-aurantiaco ; clypeo subqiiadrato, apice 

 truDcato ; mandibulis robustis, apice carinatis ; alis subfuscis. 



Long. 11 mm. 



