70 A I'l i>'K- 



rut'o-fiilvous i>ubcsccucc, on Iho sides of tlic thorax beneath, on tlic 

 h-trs, and i>n llio entire abdomen it is bhick. The niandibU's stout, 

 porrect. and with two teeth at their apex ; the clypeus punctured, 

 and willi a h)ni:iludinal central shining carina; wings dark fus- 

 cous, pak>st towards their apex. 



Ihih. Java. 



27. Megachile barbatula. 



Male. Length lines. — Black, with two, Bomotimcs three, of tlie 

 basal segments of the abdomen ferruginous. The face with fulvous 

 pubescence ; at the base of the clypeus a transverse patch of black, 

 and the anterior part with white pubescence ; the HagcUum of the 

 antenna; fulvous beneath. The thorax with fulvous pubescence 

 above, paler on llie sides and beneath ; the coxaj, trochantei'S, and 

 femora beneath more or less ferruginous ; the anterior coxa) armed 

 with stout ferruginous spines : the anterior tarsi pale testaceoiis 

 and broadly dilated, the basal joint produced into an oblong process 

 that projects forwards over the following joints ; all the joints 

 covered with short white pubescence above, and with a thick long 

 fringe of white pubescence behind, which is bright fulvous on its 

 hinder margin ; the first joint of the tarsus is narrowly margined 

 with fuscous anteriorly : the posterior tarsi have bright fidvous 

 pubescence beneath, the first joint having a floceus of white at the 

 base: wings slightly fiJvo-hy aline, with the apical margins slightly 

 clouded. Abdomen incurved at the apex ; the ferruginous seg- 

 ments have their margins more or less black, and have also trans- 

 verse bands of fidvous pubesceiice before the black margins ; the 

 apical segment emarginatc in the middle. 



n<(h. Ega, on the Amazons. 



28. Megachile pulchra. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Head and thorax black, and clothed with 

 fulvous pub(!scence, the abdomen and legs ferruginous ; the Ha- 

 geUum of the antenute fulvous beneath. The wings fulvo-hyaline, 

 their apical margins slightly clouded, the nervurcs rufo-testaceous ; 

 the legs sometimes more or less stained with black, sometimes en- 

 tirely ferruginous. The apical margins of the segments of the ab- 

 domen with narrow pale fasciae ; beneath clothed with pale fulvous 

 pubescence. 



Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the apical half of the I 

 mandibles ferruginous, and the antenna) entirely so, being only 

 slightly fuscous above; the anterior tarsi dilated, the basal joint] 

 being produced into a long process that projects over the following 

 joints ; all the joints fringed behind with long curled pubescence, ' 

 which is edged with fuscous; the coxa) armed with black spines -y^ 

 wings as in the female ; the apical segment of the abdomen with 

 deep depression, its margin slightly cmarginate. 



Jlah. St. Pavdo, on the Amazons, 



