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except at base ; mesotliorax and scutellum dull, with small 

 extremely dense punctures ; metathorax with long white 

 hair all over; tegulae dark rul*o-fuscous, with a broad hyaline 

 margin. Wings hyaline, faintly dusky ; hind basitarsi 

 moderately broad, the hair on inner side clear ferruginous. 

 Abdomen finely punctured. 



Kobe, Japan [Baker, 1 1 10). 



Not closely allied to any described Japanese species. In 

 Friese's Palsearctic table it runs to M.leucomalla, Gerst.,but 

 has no dark hair on thorax. In the table of Oriental species 

 it runs to M. femorata, Smith, but is larger and has black 

 legs. Smith's species requires a new name, as follows : — 



Megachile femorateUa, n. n. 



Megachik femorata, Smith, New Sp. Hym. Brit. Mus. (1879) p. 68 

 (India). Not M. femorata, Smith, 1853. 



Nomia rhododonta, sp. n. 



$ .— Black; postscutellum with a deeply bidentate pro- 

 cess, the teeth red; abdomen with broad emerald-green 

 bands, shot with vermilion, on hind mar-ins of segments 2 

 to 4 ; clypcus and supraclypeal area carinate ; wings red- 

 dish, second submarginal cell short, higher than broad. In 

 all respects very elu.se to M. incerta, Gribodo, but somewhat 

 larger, with the large tegulse bright clear ferruginous, the 

 mesotliorax sparsely punctured with large and very small 

 punctures, the upper border of prothorax and tubercles with 

 light fulvous hair, and a large tuft of same before tegulae ; 

 hair of mesoplcura ochreous-tinted; punctures of second 

 abdominal segment not so dense. 



Baton (Bouton?), Celebes (Queensland Museum, 51). 



This appears to be identical with the species from Celebes- 

 mentioned in Trans. Arner. Ent. Soc. xxxi. p. 322, but not 

 named. 



Melissodes hymenoxidis, Cockcrell. 

 Tolland, Colorado, Aug. 24, 1911 {Cockcrell). 



Epeolus humillimus, sp. n. 



c? . — Length 6'5-7 mm. 



Black, with the mandibles red except at base, a red spot 

 at each side of labrum ; tegulae, tubercles, knees, tibiae at 

 apex, and the tarsi all ferruginous; mandibles bidentate; 



