the ApiJse in the British Museum. 473 



Megachile [Eumegachile) neavei, sp. u. 



2 . Nigra ; facie nigro-, genis infra, thorace oranino, abdominis 

 segincnto prinio omnino, segmento secundo lateribus albido-hirtis ; 

 segraentis 2 et 3 sparsiin, 4-6 dense ferrugineo-tomentosis ; scopa 

 anreo-brunnea, basi pallidiore ; clypeo basi tuberculo mediano 

 lato instructo ; mandibulis forcipatis ; metatarsis angustis ; alis 

 fuscis. 



Long. 1() mm. 



? . Black ; the face densely and vertex sparsely covered 

 with dark pubescence ; the cheeks below, the whole thorax, 

 first abdominal tergite wholly, and second abdominal tergite 

 apico-laterally clothed with white pubescence ; the rest of 

 the abdomen covered with ferruginous-red pubescence, that 

 on segments 2 and 3 much sparser ; legs dark terrugiuous, 

 tarsi inclining to black, intermediate and posterior tarsi with 

 rufous pubescence on the inner side. Scopa golden brown, 

 paler at the base. Wings dark brown. 



Clypeus very short, with a broad tubercle in the centre ; 

 mandibles arched, bidentate at apex. Punctured, mandibles 

 and abdomen finely, clypeus, head, and thorax closely and 

 somewhat coarsely. Metatarsus iii. slender^ shorter than 

 and about half as broad as tibia. 



Length 16 mm. 



(^ . Similar to the female in general appearance, but with 

 apex of clypeus and interantennal space covered with white 

 pilosity, coxa i. with a short slender spine, abdominal seg- 

 ment 6 impressed at apex (as in M. chrysorrhoea) , 



3 ? ?,3 c?c?. 



Hub. Lower Luangwa River, N.E. Rhodesia, Sept. 1910 

 {S. A. Neave), type ? ; Ngoa, Nyasaland, 21. x. 1910 {Dr. 

 J. E. S. Old), S $ ; Fort Jameson, 3800 feet, Oct. 1910, 

 and Luangwa to Petauke, Sept. 1910, N.E. Rhodesia (S. A. 

 Neave), S S- 



This species comes nearest to M. cornigera, Fr., but differs 

 in having the mandibles 3-tootlied (in cornigera they are 

 5-6-toothed) and abdominal segment 1 and part of 2 white-, 

 not black-haired. 



Megachile battorensis, sp. n. 



5 . M. {Eumegachile) rujlpeclis similis, sed non EumegacliUe. Capile 

 thoraceque antice fusco-, postscutello, segmento mediano, pleuris, 

 abdominisque segmento prime basi pallide flavo-hirtis ; segmentis 

 abdominis 1 apice, 2 et 3 omnino ferrugineo-tomentosis, 4-6 



