474 Mr. G. Meade- Waldo on 



sparsim nigro-hirtis ; scopa ferruginea, apiee obscuriore, nigra ; 

 pedibus brunneis, plus minusve flavo-pilosis ; alis flavo-hyalinis, 

 apice fuscis ; tegulis ferrugineis. Clypeo truncato, piano, crasse 

 puncfcato ; raandibulis robustis, rugoso-striatis. 

 Long. 20 mm. 



Similar to M. rufipes, Y., diflPering as follows : — 



M. (Eumeffachile) rtifipes, F. I M. hattorensis, sp. n. 



Clypeus extremely sliort, with | Clypeus normal, rather broader 

 median tubercle; mandibles arched, | than long; no carina; mandibles 

 slender. (Subgenus Eicmegachile.) \ stout, not arched. (Subgenus Me- 



1 gacliile.) 



Legs red. I Legs brown. 



Length 20 mm. 



Hah. Battor, Gold Coast, Oct. 1911 {H. T. Palmer), 1 ? , 

 type ; Uganda Protectorate, between Seziwa 11. and Kam- 

 pala, 3500-3750 feet, Aug. 1911 {S. A. Neave), 3 ? ; En- 

 tebbe, Uganda, Aug. 1911 (C. C. Gowdey), 1 ? . Presented 

 by the Entomological Research Committee (Tropical Africa) . 



In Megachile sens. str. the most nearly allied species 

 appear to be M. stephanelU, Friese, also from W. Africa, 

 and M. kigonserana, Friese, from German East Africa. 



M. stephanelli has the scopa fuscous at base and grey at 

 apex, and the wings smoky, while in M. kigonserana the 

 thorax is wholly black-haired and the wings are hyaline. 



Megachile {Amegachile) frederici, sp. n. 



9 . Nigra, nitida ; mandibulis (apice excepto), antennis basi, pedibus 

 teo-ulisque rufis ; facie argenteo-bruuneo-, genis, pleuris sparsim, 

 segmento mediano, abdominisque segmento primo lateribus 

 albido-pilosis ; scopa nigra, basi pallida ; metatarsus iii. intus 

 aureo-hirtis ; clypeo apice emarginato ; mandibulis robustis, apice 

 4-dentati8 ; alis plerumque cseruleo-micantibus, basi extreme 

 hyalinis. 



Long. 15 mm. 



$, Shining black; mandibles (except the apex), scape, 

 flat'-ellum beneath, tegul?e, and legs red; the face about the 

 insertion of the antennse clothed with silvery-brown pubes- 

 cence, interspersed with a few black hairs ; the pleurae 

 sparsely, median segment and abdominal tergite 1 densely 

 clothed on the sides with white pubescence ; scopa black, 

 sternite 1 medially clothed with pale hair. 



Wings with a bluish effulgence, the extreme base hyaline. 



Clvpeus about as broad as long, emarginate at apex, the 



