478 On the Apidse in the British Museum, 



7. f Tergite 1 with sitiall apico-lateral tufts 

 I of white pubescence. L. 13 mm, 



j (" New Holland.") punctata. 



j Tergite 1 wholly and 2 apico-laterally 

 I clothed with white pubescence. L. 

 (_ 11 mm. (W. Australia.) rugosa. 



Megachile exaltata, Smith. 

 Meqachile exaltata, Smith, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. i. p. 185 (1853). 



s. 



Megachile incongrua, Smith, Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 78 (1879). 



The older species, described from the male alone (Rio 

 Tapajos, Brazil), is certainly co-specific with M. incongrua 

 from Tunantins, of which both sexes are described. 



Anthidium, F. 

 Anthidium (Pro anthidium) cimbiciforme , Smith. 



This is a valid species, and not synonymous with A. laterals, 

 Latr., as stated, by Friese, ' Bienen Europas/ iv. p. 153 

 (1898). 



The yellow markings are much more profuse than in 

 laterale. The antennae and two curved lines on the disc of 

 tlie mesonotum are yellow. In the males the apical segments 

 of the two species show great disparity ; in A. laterale the 

 seventh abdominal tergite bears a short median tubercle, 

 whereas in A. cimbiciforme the median prolongation is long 

 and apically truncate. 



The species was described from Albania. 



Anthidium africanum, Smith. 

 ? Miaspis ahdominale, F. S • 



There seems to be a great probability that Smith's species 

 is the male of E. abdominale, F. Friese ('Die Bienen 

 Af rikas ') quotes Stelis rvfiventris, Lep., as the male of that 

 species, querying the locality (Brazil) given by Lepeletier 

 (Hist. nat. Insect. Hymen, ii. p. 531), though Lepeletier 

 himself seemed in no doul)t about it. 



Smith's type is 14 mm. in length, though he inexplicably 

 gives 5 lines. 



In the British Museum copy of Smith's Catalogue A. afri- 

 canum is followed by a MS. note ^' $ of no. 69," i. e. A. hi- 

 color, this being the synonymy adopted by Friese in ' Die 

 Bienen Afrikas.' In ' Das Tierreich' he has placed the two 

 species separate. An earlier MS. alteration by Smith is a 

 bracket uniting A. africanwn and A. (now Euaspis) abdo- 

 minale, F. ; and this appears to be the correct solution. 



