358 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell— -^Descriptions and 



black ; their spurs black ; middle and hind tarsi thickened, 

 with very long lateral fringes of shining creamy-white 

 curled hair ; keel of sixth abdominal segment strongly 

 irregularly dentate, and emarginate in middle. Wings 

 dusky reddish, stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous. 



Bangalore, India, Aug. 25, on Cosmos flowers (T. B. F.). 



Structurally similar to M. devadatta, Ckll., from N. India, 

 but larger and differing in many details. 



Received from Mr. Ramakrishna Ayyar (No. 22). 



Megachile geoffrei, n. n. 



Megachile frederici, Meade-Waldo, Ann. & Mag. N. H., Nov. 1912, 

 p, 474 (iiot Cameron, 1901). 



Gambia and Nigeria. 



Megachile atrata fulvipennis (Smith). 

 Both sexes, Sandakan, Borneo (Baker, 9970). 



Megachile gemula albula (Lovell & Ckll.). 



Minnehaha, Pike's Peak, Colorado {Frances Long). New 

 to Colorado. At this locality Miss Long also took Bombus 

 occidentalis perixanthus (Ckll. & Porter), B. rufocinctus 

 phacelia, Ckll., Andrena edwinia, Ckll., A. prunorum, Ckll., 

 A. medionitens, Ckll., Osmia bruneri, Ckll., 0. densa, Cress., 

 0. fulgida, Cress., O. melanotricha, Lov. & Ckll., O.pent- 

 stemonis, Ckll., 0. hypoleuca, Ckll., Ant/wphora smithii, Cress., 

 A. simillima, Cress., Titus ella pronit ens, Ckll., &c. 



Pasites indicus, sp. n. 



? (type). — Length a little over 6 mm. 



Head and thorax black, abdomen clear ferruginous, the 

 filth segment blackened above ; mandibles ferruginous, 

 stout and simple; eyes reddish brown ; scape black, red at 

 apex ; flagellum red, dusky above except basally ; head and 

 thorax with appressed silvery hair, tinged with brown on 

 middle of mesothorax ; tubercles red at end ; tegulae clear 

 ferruginous. Wings hyaline, tinged with brown; truncation 

 of mai'ginal cell broad, little oblique ; first r. n. ending 

 nearer to second than to base of second s.m. ; b. n. meeting 

 t.-m. ; stigma and nervures ferruginous ; tibiae and tarsi, 

 and apices of femora, ferruginous. Abdomen shining, with 

 large patches of appressed white hair at sides of first four 



