﻿Records 
  of 
  Bees. 
  315 
  

  

  follows 
  : 
  mandibles 
  much 
  shorter, 
  tin* 
  apex 
  reaching 
  only 
  a 
  

   little 
  beyond 
  middle 
  line 
  of 
  clypeus 
  ; 
  head 
  round 
  instead 
  of 
  

   quadrate, 
  the 
  occiput 
  and 
  cheeks 
  less 
  developed 
  ; 
  cheeks 
  in 
  

   lateral 
  view 
  about 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  eye. 
  Wings 
  hyaline, 
  faintly 
  

   greyish 
  ; 
  b. 
  n. 
  falling 
  a 
  little 
  short 
  of 
  t.-m. 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  be- 
  

   yond 
  the 
  second 
  segment 
  with 
  a 
  fine 
  thin 
  pruinose 
  pubescence. 
  

   The 
  punctures 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  arc 
  very 
  much 
  finer 
  than 
  in 
  

   the 
  American 
  II. 
  carinatus, 
  Cresson. 
  The 
  ventral 
  Bcopa 
  is 
  

   white. 
  

  

  c?. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  formed 
  as 
  in 
  //. 
  truncorum, 
  but 
  readily 
  separated 
  by 
  the 
  

   hyaline 
  wings. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Formosa 
  (Saute? 
  % 
  ). 
  Berlin 
  Museum. 
  Six 
  specimens 
  

   were 
  obtained 
  at 
  Takao, 
  Sept. 
  29 
  and 
  Oct. 
  11, 
  1907. 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  is 
  new 
  to 
  Formosa. 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  apparently 
  

   related 
  also 
  to 
  //. 
  tenuis, 
  Nurse, 
  from 
  Mt. 
  Abu, 
  but 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

   are 
  not 
  especially 
  enlarged. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  tooth 
  at 
  each 
  side 
  

   of 
  the 
  scutcllum 
  in 
  //. 
  sauteri 
  ? 
  ; 
  hence 
  in 
  Friese's 
  table 
  of 
  

   Palaearctic 
  species 
  it 
  runs 
  to 
  the 
  Egypthn 
  //. 
  moricei, 
  Friese, 
  

   from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  at 
  once 
  separated 
  by 
  the 
  non-dentate 
  clypeal 
  

   margin'. 
  

  

  Megachile 
  faceta, 
  Bingham. 
  

  

  Two 
  females 
  in 
  the 
  Berlin 
  Museum 
  were 
  collected 
  by 
  

   Sauter 
  in 
  Formosa, 
  one 
  at 
  Cikutoge, 
  May 
  1909. 
  Bingham 
  

   reported 
  the 
  species 
  from 
  Burma 
  and 
  Tenasserim 
  ; 
  I 
  have 
  

   one 
  from 
  the 
  Khasia 
  Hills, 
  received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Sladen. 
  

  

  Mega 
  chile 
  studiosella, 
  n. 
  n. 
  

  

  Megochile 
  sf.udiosa, 
  Ringhn.m, 
  .In. 
  Bombay 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Soc. 
  1K08, 
  p. 
  120 
  

   Simla. 
  (Not 
  M. 
  studtosa, 
  Cresson.) 
  

  

  $ 
  . 
  — 
  9 
  mm. 
  long. 
  

   Ventral 
  scopa 
  white. 
  

  

  Megachile 
  (Eumegachile) 
  dinura, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ? 
  . 
  — 
  -Length 
  about 
  19 
  mm. 
  

  

  Black 
  ; 
  hair 
  of 
  head 
  short 
  and 
  black, 
  a 
  little 
  fulvous 
  on 
  

   lower 
  part 
  of 
  cheeks 
  ; 
  mandibles 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  cutting-edge, 
  

   but 
  only 
  two 
  teeth 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  transverse, 
  short, 
  densely 
  rugose, 
  

   not 
  at 
  all 
  keeled, 
  lower 
  margin 
  straight, 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  small 
  

   obscure 
  tubercles 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  cheeks 
  with 
  very 
  large 
  

   punctures 
  ; 
  vertex, 
  mesothorax, 
  and 
  scutellum 
  very 
  densely 
  

   punctured, 
  scutellum 
  more 
  coarsely 
  than 
  mesothorax 
  ; 
  meso- 
  

   thorax 
  and 
  scutellum 
  almost 
  nude, 
  with 
  some 
  very 
  short 
  

   inconspicuous 
  black 
  hair 
  : 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  thorax 
  with 
  fulvous 
  

  

  21* 
  

  

  