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the segments have laterally a narrow fascia of white pubescence ; 

 clothed beneath with fulvous pubescence. 



Hah. Shanghai, Hong Kong. 



This is the Chinese representative of the MegacMle disjimcta of 

 Fabricius, from which it differs principally in having fulvous pubes- 

 cence beneath the abdomen ; in M. disjuncta, from India, it is black. 



24. Megachile humilis. 



Female. Length 7^ lines, — Black, with sooty-black pubescence on 

 the face, and pale fulvous on the margins of the thorax above. The 

 anterior margin of the clypeus truncate ; mandibles very stout and 

 with two apical teeth. Thorax with the pubescence on the sides and 

 beneath pale ; wings hyaline, but clouded beyond the submarginal 

 cells, the nervures obscurely ferruginous, the tegulte pale testaceous ; 

 the legs rufo-piceous beneath ; the tarsi with fulvous pubescence. 

 Abdomen finely punctured, the margins of the segments depressed ; 

 the basal segment with pale pubescence laterally ; the apical mar- 

 gin of the segments with widely interrupted narrow pale fasciae ; 

 beneath, the basal half is clothed with pale fulvous, and the apical 

 half with black pubescence. 



Male. Smaller, but resembles the female : it has, however, pale 

 pubescence on the face, the mandibles having four acute teeth, the 

 anterior tarsi simple, the apical segment of the abdomen notched 

 in the middle of its margin. 



Hah. Shanghai. 



25. Megachile remota. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black ; the general pubescence above pale 

 fulvous, on the sides of the face below the insertion of the an- 

 tennae it is palest ; the clypeus strongly punctured ; the ijuboscence 

 on the cheeks and thorax beneath whitish. The mesothorax closely 

 and rather strongly punctured above; the wings hyahne, with a 

 cloud beyond the submarginal cells, the nervures fusco-fcrrugi- 

 nous : the legs with pale pubescence outwardly, the tarsi fulvous 

 within ; the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen with violet and green 

 iridescence above ; a narrow pale fulvous piibescent fascia on the 

 apical margins of all the segments ; clothed beneath with pale ful- 

 vous pubescence, that on the two apical segments is more or less 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Shanghai. 



26. Megachile determinata. 

 Female. Length 11 lines, — Black, the head and thorax above with 



