498 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Hob. Gulhek, Persia, July 1906 (K Grant-Duff). British 

 Museum. 



The clypeus shows no sign of the median tubercle found in 

 several of the large Asiatic species. This fine species is 

 evidently very close to M. foersteri, Gerst., originally 

 described from Crete. I believe that it is identical with the 

 insect from Asia Minor described by Friese as M. foersteri 

 albescens. As the name albescens was preoccupied, W. A. 

 Schulz (1906) proposed to substitute leucotricha. The name 

 leucotricha, however, was earlier used (Cockerell, 1902) for 

 the representative or subspecies of M. occidentalis found in 

 Southern California. The whitish colour of the abdomen in 

 M. gulhecensis is especially evident when seen from in front. 



Megachile fulleborn i } Friese. 



Near Johannesburg, Transvaal (A. J. Cholmley). British 

 Museum. 



The specimen exactly agrees with one from Langenburg, 

 L. Nyassa (Fulleborn) . 



Prosopis husela, sp. n. 



Similar to P. elegans, Smith, but anterior border of 

 scutellum black and mesothorax with two discal longitudinal 

 yellow bands in addition to the marginal ones; first r. n. 

 meeting first t.-c. 



$ . — Length a little over 8 mm. 



Abdomen ferruginous, not blackened as in ? elegans ; 

 pleura, behind the tubercles, with a very large yellow patch. 



$ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Pleura with a small yellow patch behind the tubercles. 



Hab. Townsville, Queensland ; two males, 27. 2. 03 

 (F. P. Dodd) ; in British Museum : one female, 7. 1. 03 

 [F. P. Dodd). All from the Turner collection. 



Husela is a Malay word for eleven, in allusion to the bars 

 on the mesothorax. 



Prosopis elegans huseloides, subsp. n. 



? . — Similar to P. elegans, but smaller (length about 

 8 mm.) ; first three abdominal segments ferruginous, more or 

 less marked with black on disk, the others black ; sides of 

 clypeus without black stripes, but with ferruginous ; meso- 

 thorax with a transverse yellow band (not reaching sides) 

 along posterior margin ; scutellum (as in elegans, but not as 

 in husela) all } r ellow ; no yellow patch behind tubercles, but 



