360 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



suture, and behind scutellum ; mesothorax well punctured, 

 the punctures separate ; tegulge piceous. Wings dusky in 

 marginal cell and throughout the apical region ; b. n. not 

 reaching t.-rn.; second s.ra. a little broader below than first. 

 Legs ordinary, inner side of tarsi, and of tibia? more or less, 

 with fox-red hair. Abdomen with pale fulvous hair (like 

 that of metathorax) at base; segments 2 to 4 with apical 

 bands of bright golden-fulvous or golden-orange hair, fifth 

 with about the apical two-thirds covered with such hair, and 

 sixth entirely covered; margin of sixth very obtusely bi- 

 nodulose ; no ventral spine ; anterior coxae unarmed, but 

 with a large tuft of hair. 



This may be compared with M. sequior, Ckll., but the 

 latter has a pair of well-developed teeth on the sixth abdo- 

 minal segment. 



Hub. Kuranda, Cairns, Queensland, Jan. 1902 [Turner). 

 British Museum. 



Megachile eucalypti, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 10 mm. 



Black, parallel-sided, with the last three abdominal seg- 

 ments clothed with scale-like fulvous hair, which is so distri- 

 buted that the surface appears minutely black-speckled, the 

 tegument showing through ; head large, facial quadrangle 

 longer than broad ; mandibles black, quadridentate; clypeu3 

 low and broad, strongly and very densely punctured, the 

 lower margin shining, and slightly crenulate ; sides of face 

 with much white hair ; flagellum obscurely reddish beneath ; 

 vertex densely and strongly punctured ; thorax with four 

 small but very dense and conspicuous tufts of white hair, one 

 at each side of prothorax and one at each posterior corner o£ 

 mesothorax ; tubercles also with a dense white tuft, and one 

 behind and a little below wings; mesothorax and scutellum 

 strongly, extremely densely punctured; tegulse piceous. 

 Wings slightly dusky, with a darker streak in marginal cell ; 

 second s.m. very long. Legs ordinary ; spurs pale. First 

 abdominal segment with a conspicuous patch of white hair 

 on each side ; first three segments with apical, greyish, 

 slightly fulvous-tinted hair-bands, that on first failing 

 laterally ; ventral scopa entirely white. 



$ . — Length about 8| mm. 



Long and narrow, in most respects like the female; face 

 densely covered with shining white hair ; thoracic hair-spots 

 smaller or even absent; vertex, mesothorax, and scutellum 

 with a good deal of dark fuscous hair ; flagellum long and 



