Records of Bees. 497 



insect seems practically identical with the Sicilian var. siculus, 

 Perez, but I have not had an opp >rtunity of seeing Sicilian 

 examples. 



A nthidium florentinum ( Fabr.) . 



Cyprus (Miss Bates), 1 $ . British Museum. 



The specimen is larger than usual, and the seventh abdo- 

 minal segment is entirely black. It is possible that there is 

 a distinct Cyprian race. 



Megachile gulhecensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length 20 mm. ; expanse about 33. 



Shape as in the group of M. rufiventris, M. mystacea, &c, 

 the rather long abdomen broadest about the junction of the 

 second and third segments ; head and thorax black, dorsally 

 with short inconspicuous black hair; face with black hair, a 

 little slightly pallid on each side; cheeks below with black 

 hair ; prothorax and sides of metathorax with long yellowish- 

 white hair; pleura with black hair; head very large, broader 

 than thorax ; clypeus short and broad, densely punctured, 

 toward the sides the punctures mixed very large and very 

 small, the lower margin straight or faintly concave, emitting 

 some long dark reddish hairs, and bounded on each side by a 

 prominent tubercular angle ; mandibles with a very broad 

 cutting-edge, only an apical and subapical tooth well-defined ; 

 region midway between the antennas elevated and reddish; 

 antennas wholly dark, first three joints of flagellum nearly 

 equal ; vertex very broad, with strong and close but well- 

 separated punctures on a shining ground ; cheeks broad, less 

 densely punctured ; mesothorax densely and strongly punc- 

 tured ; scutellum dull, rugoso-punctate ; area of metathorax 

 depressed centrally ; tegulas ferruginous, with minute punc- 

 tures. Wings strongly infuscated, coloured somewhat as in 

 Chalicodoma sicula ; b. n. falling just short of t.-m. ; apical 

 part of marginal cell rather slender. Legs reddish black, 

 with dark hair, the tibias behind largely chestnut-red, the 

 hair on tarsi becoming reddish, that on inner side of hind 

 tarsi bright ferruginous ; claws simple. Abdomen dark 

 reddish, the first segment with a very broad well-defined 

 basin ; dorsal surface of abdomen densely covered with short 

 felt-like pale ochreous hair, on apical segment becoming 

 ferruginous ; ventral scopa entirely bright ferruginous. 

 Maxillary palpi with long hair ; blade of maxilla conspicu- 

 ously but finely transversely ribbed ; second joint of labial 

 palpi a little longer than first ; middle femora very broad. 



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