468 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



shelf ordi) ; Sumatra; Kota Rn^ti, Ach'm, Vuloweh (Wallace, 

 Meade-Waldo) ; Tenasserim^ Mergui {Bingham) ; Java 

 [Horsjield) ; Singapore (H. N. Ridley) . 



Megachile dimidiata, Smith. 



Megachile dimidiata, Sm. Oatal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. i. p. 174. no, 88 



(1853). $. 



Megachile velutina, Sm. Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. i. p. 180. no. 105 



(1853). $. 



M. dimidiata (type in British Museum) has the pollen- 

 brush deep fulvous in the centre and black laterally, not 

 entirely black as Smith states; in his description of M. velutina 

 he describes it correctly. 



Bingham (Fauna Brit. India, i. p. 472) separates the two 

 species on the colour of the antennae and legs, which he says 

 are fulvous red in M. dimidiata and black in M. velutina, 

 although the original descriptions of both species distinctly 

 state that the legs are fulvous, and specimens determined by 

 Bingham himself as M. velutina have red antennae and 

 fulvous legs. The type of M. velutina was in the collection 

 of the late J. S. Baly. 



Megachile rotundicej)s , Smith, ? . 



This species, described from Mt. Ophir (type in the Hope 

 Department), belongs to the subgenus Eumegachile. The 

 scopa is silver-white except sternite 5 (at the apex) and 6, 

 where it is black. 



Megachile terminaUs, Smith, ? . 



As Friese rightly says, this species is like M. ornata, 

 Smith, but differs in having the scopa black. Other 

 difl'erenceSj noticeable on comparing the types of the two 

 species, are to be found in the considerably darker wings of 

 M. terminalis and its slenderer form. 



Megachile placida, Smith, ^J. 



Described from Gilolo. The species has a slender, forward- 

 curving spine on each of the anterior coxae. Type in Hope 

 Department. 



Megachile laboriosa, Smith, S ■ 



This species has a short tubercle on each anterior coxa. 

 Type in Hope Department. 



