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with pale hair ; scale-like hair peppered over the last two 

 segments fulvous. 



J lab. Cooktown, Queensland, Oct. 1902 {Gilbert Turner). 

 British Museum. 



Megachile oculipes, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 10 mm. 



Black, parallel-sided, rather narrow ; hair of head and 

 thorax white except on the broad vertex, where it is fulvous ; 

 head broad ; eyes green, stained with blood-red ; abundant 

 hair of face greyish white ; lower edge of clypeus with two 

 small teeth; mandibles black, tridentate; vertex and front 

 coarsely granular or rugoso-punctate ; scape short, entirely 

 bright ferruginous ; flagellum long and slender, black above, 

 ferruginous beneath except the last three joints ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum densely rugoso-punctate ; little tufts of white 

 hair on tubercles and posterior angles of mesothorax, but not 

 forming conspicuous spots ; hair of cheeks beneath abundant 

 and pure white; tegular brown. Wings hyaline; a fuscous 

 streak in marginal cell. Anterior coxse apparently spined 

 (the insect is carded, and they are hard to see) ; anterior 

 femora red in front and behind, with much white hair; their 

 tibia? entirely bright red j their tarsi clear red, basally with 

 long reddish (the first two or three black) hairs behind, and 

 beyond that with a very large oval lobe, which is white, with 

 a grey centre, simulating an eye; the grey centre is, of. 

 course, represented by a black spot beneath (compare M. euca- 

 lypti) ; middle femora red in front ; their tibiae thick, red, 

 with a broad black band behind ; their tarsi very thick, 

 black, except the apex of the last joint, with the claws ; hind 

 legs black, the tarsi thick ; hind spurs piceous. Abdomen 

 shining, strongly punctured, base with loose white hair; 

 hind margins of first three segments with white hair-bands ; 

 black parts (especially fourth segment) with short black hair; 

 apical segments with silvery hair, not dense; margin of sixth 

 segment truncate. 



Known by the structure of the front legs and the end of 

 the abdomen without red. The colour of the middle tibiae, 

 scape, &c. readily separate it from M. veUitor, Ckll., lineatipes, 

 Ckll., and latipes, Sm. 



Hub. Townsville, Queensland, 12. 2. 03 (F. P. Bodd). 

 Turner Collection; British Museum. 



