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and scutellum shining, with very strong distinct punctures 

 and thin short black hair ; pale hair-band in scutello- 

 mesothoracic suture feeble or absent ; postscutellum with 

 rather long rufo-fuscous hair ; area of metathorax shining ; 

 tubercles fringed with dense [)ale ochreous hair ; pleura 

 strongly and closely punctured, and witli very thin pale hair. 

 Legs ordinary, anterior tarsi simple and coxae without 

 spines ; claws red with black tips. Abdomen short, the 

 three segments closely and finely punctured, the fourth much 

 smoother ; first three with red marginal bands, evanescent 

 in middle, on first reduced to lateral patches, fourth (except 

 part of disc) and fifth covered with red pubescence, witli 

 scattered black hairs intermixed, the red is a deep orange- 

 ferruginous ; sixth segment retracted, with red hair at sides, 

 its keel not at all prominent, feebly bilobed at apex ; no 

 apical (subventral) teeth or spines. Spurs of hind tibiae 

 cream-colour. 



Hah. Dapitan, Mindanao {Baker, 31-tO, 3141). 



A distinct species, recalling by the colour of the abdomen 

 M. doanei, Ckll., from Tahiti, but very different structurally. 



Megachile hookeri, sp. n. 



? . — Length almost 15 mm. 



Robust, black, including mandibles, tarsi, and antennae. 

 Wings hyaline, faintly dusky, with dark fuscous nervures ; 

 pubescence greyish white, long and black on vertex, on 

 middle of mesothorax mixed with black, only a very few 

 dark hairs on scutellum. Abdomen with pale hair on first 

 two segments and basal part of third, but beyond that the 

 hair is coarse, erect, and black, except that segments 3 to 5 

 have conspicuous eutii'e white hair-bands, and the sixth, 

 except basally, has a fine pale pruinose pubescence; sixth 

 dorsal segment in outline concave, with the black bristles 

 very large and conspicuous ; ventral scopa entirely clear 

 white. Mandibles broad, quadrideutate, with long golden 

 hairs arising from beueath the basal lialf ; white hair of face 

 and front abundant ; clypeus minutely rugoso-punctate, but 

 largely concealed by hair, its lower margin straight and 

 shining ; vertex with small punctures on each side of the 

 ocelli, but more posteriorly with large punctures ; meso- 

 thorax and scutellum closely punctured, disc of mesothorax 

 more sparsely punctured, showing the shining surface ; no 

 white lines of hair on mesothorax and sutural band ; b. n. 

 fallmg short of t.-m. ; anterior tarsi with a fringe of long 



