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face pale fulvous, with some fuscous, of region about ocelli 

 mainly fuscous, of cheeks pale but not white ; clypeus lon- 

 gitudinally depressed in middle, coarsely punctured, with 

 a marked tendency toward longitudinal ridges ; malar space 

 about half as long as broad ; ocelli fulvous ; vertex with 

 very small irregular punctures ; mesothorax strongly punc- 

 tured ; base of metathorax with coarse rugse ; thorax above 

 with dense bright fulvous hair, sparsely tipped with fuscous ; 

 tubercles with fulvous hair, and a patch just behind tipped 

 with fuscous ; pleura with pale ochreous-tinted hair. AVings 

 reddish hyaline, nervures and the small stigma ferruginous, 

 radial nervure fuscous ; second submarginal cell extremely 

 broad, receiving first recurrent nervure in middle. Legs 

 with pale ochreous-tinted hair; spurs ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men dullish, without distinct punctures; hind margins of 

 segments broadly testaceous, and covered with appresscd 

 ochreous hair, but the first band is mainly on base of second 

 segment ; first segment with light fulvous hair on basal ■ 

 part ; fourth and- fifth segments with long fuscous hair before 

 the light bands ; venter thinly covered all over with ochreous 

 hair. 



Foochow, Fukien, China, Nov. 16, 1914 (C. R. Kellogg, 

 243). From Prof. G. F. Baker. 



Something like C. fo aliens, Kirby, but of gigantic size. 

 C. mongolicus, Perez, from Mongolia, has the red hair on 

 thorax above, but it is very much smaller. 



Colletes fi'iesei, n. n. 



Colletes mongolicus, Friese, Ann. Mus. Zool. Ac. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 

 xviii. (1913), p. xlix (not of Perez, 1903). 



Megachile {Paramegacfiile) Jcobensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 12 mm. 



Black, with white hair, which is short and thin on head 

 and thorax above, so that the general effect is grey. Abdo- 

 men with entire white hair-bands on segments 2 to 5; 

 ventral scopa white (with a faint creamy tint, contrasting 

 with the pure white of the dorsal bands), black on last seg- 

 ment; last dorsal segment straight in profile, with scanty 

 short dark hair. Mandibles quadridentate, the basal half 

 covered with white hair ; clypeus convex, densely punctured, 

 with a smooth shining median line, lower margin subangular 

 on each side; supraclypeal area densely punctured, with a 

 shining area in middle ; flagellum obscure fuscous beneath, 



