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surface between the punctures shining ; thorax above with 

 very thin and short pale ochreous hair^ and no distinct 

 sutural bands ; area of raetathorax granular at base and 

 sides ; tegulse rufo-piceous. Wings hyaline, dusky apically^ 

 stigma large, dark ferruginous. Legs with short pale hair. 

 Abdomen finely and closely punctured, the bases of the 

 segments deeply impressed ; first segment with lateral pale 

 apical hair-patches, third and fourth with conspicuous basal 

 bands of glittering scale-like pubescence, fifth with the basal 

 half thinly covered with pale hair, and sixth with even more, 

 the hair jjaie ochreous-tinted and glittering ; hind margins 

 of second and following segments very narrowly fuscous ; 

 sixth segment vertical, the keel feeble, not or barely de- 

 pressed in middle, a short tooth on each side of apical 

 margin of segment. 



Hab. Cuernos Mts., Negros, Philippine Is. {Baker, 3147, 

 = type) ; Dapitan, Mindanao [Baker, 3139). 



This minute species recalls some of the Australian forms, 

 but does not resemble them in detail. I do not know any 

 near relative. The small size and red tarsi readily dis- 

 tinguish it in the Philippine fauna. 



Meyachile indianorumy Cockerell, variety a. 



A male from Jacksonville, Texas, at Helenium tenuifolium, 

 Aug. 11, 190G (Bishopp), represents a new variety with 

 black legs. It differs in the pubescence and the colour of 

 legs from Cresson's description of M. dejlexa, but it is not 

 improbable that both this insect and true indlanorum repre- 

 sent varieties or races of deflexa. It also seems possible 

 that M. megayyna, Cockerell, is the female of the present 

 variety, although it has darker wings, and the strong coarse 

 sculpture of the clypeus is entirely different. A female 

 M. megarjyna was taken at Ardmore, Okla, July 11 {Jones). 



Megachile arnica, Cresson. 



The male closely resembles that of M. Integra, Cresson, 

 but is certainly distinct, being smaller, with no band in the 

 suture between scutellum and metathorax, while the apex of 

 the abdomen beneath presents a sharp median spine, wanting 

 in Integra. The carious claviform hairs beneath the white 

 fringe on anterior tarsus are characteristic. The species, 

 however, appears to be remarkably variable. One from 

 CotuUa, Texas, on Verhesina encelioides, April 27, ]906 

 {F. C. Pratt), is scarcely 8*5 mm. long, and has the hair of 



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