Records of Bees. rom 
M. cephalotes, except that the abdomen is not at all metallic, 
and the ventral scopa, instead of being entirely white, is 
cream-colour, black on the last segment and the apex of the 
penultimate one. It also differs from cephalotes in the 
structure of the face, which is not described by Smith. 
The supraclypeal area presents a large pit or hollow, sur- 
rounded by a triangular rim, which is variably but not 
coarsely punctured ; the clypeus is smooth and deeply 
receding, with a strong dentiform median tubercle near the 
upper end, 
Hindupur, Anantapur District, April 9-14, 1915. 
M. cephalotes was described from Northern India; Bing- 
ham reported it from Dehra Dun and Ahmedabad. 
Megachile (Eumegachile) ramakrishne, sp. n. 
?. (Type.)—Like M. triangulifrons, but smaller, length 
not quite 13 mm. 
Ventral scopa black only at extreme apex, even the base 
of last segment with pale hair; supraclypeal basin less dis- 
tinct, with large coarse punctures about its margin, the area 
between it and the clypeus (practically obsolete in trianguli- 
frons) quite wide, and coarsely punctured, with a median 
smooth tubercle; clypeus short, with the median tubercle 
not nearly so large as in ¢riangulifrons ; mandibles with the 
second tooth, prominent in ériangulsfrons, subobsolete. 
6 .—Length about 8°5 mm. 
Hair of face dense and pure white, but the upper part of 
the clypeus is closely and minutely punctured, and bare; 
anterior cox with short but well-’eveloped spines; auterior 
tibize and basitarsi polished and dark brown on inner side, 
the basitarsi distinctly hollowed and a little produced at end ; 
end of abdomen bituberculate, and at the sides subapically 
are long black hairs. 
Coimbatore, Nov. 1913. 
There are three other species in the Indian fauna which 
should be compared with the above two. J. arcuata, Ckll., 
from Punjab, is similarly formed, and the distinct tubercle 
on the inner border of the mandibles is represented in 
triangulifera. In the species just described the hair on the 
dorsum of thorax is scanty and wholly white, but the thorax 
of arcuata has sparse black hairs above. MM. arcuata also 
lacks the tubercle on clypeus. 
M. lissopoda, Cam., from Bombay, bas the hair of pleura 
soot-coloured ; in our insects itis thin and white. M. lisso- 
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