11. MEGACHILE. 175 



MegacMle pyrina, St.-Farg. Eym. ii. 334 3 2 ■ 



Smith, Been Great Brit. 177. 

 Megachile rufitarsis, Smith, Zool. ii. 695 <3 . 

 Megachile fasciata, Smith, lib. cit. 694 2 . 



Female. Length 5-6 lines. — Black : the face with bright golden- 

 yellow pubescence ; on the vertex it is usually more or less fuscous. 

 Thorax, the pubescence on the disk short and fuscous, on the sides 

 ard beneath pale fulvous, frequently inclining to cinereous : the 

 a leal joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; the pubescence beneath the 

 tarsi fulvous ; the calcaria pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen oblong, 

 the two basal segments with thin pale pubescence, the following with 

 fuscous ; the apical margin of all the segments with entire fascia? 

 of pale fulvous pubescence, and beneath densely clothed with pale 

 fulvous. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — The pubescence similar to that of the female, 

 but longer and more dense on the face ; the apical segment of the 

 abdomen deeply emarginate in the middle, and denticulate at the 

 sides ; the seventh segment has a longish spine in the middle ; the 

 anterior coxa? have a blunt spine. 



This species has been captured at and near to Weybridge, Bristol, 

 and Southampton. It must be very local. No one has been ascer- 

 tained to have taken it for some years past. 



5. Megachile odontura. 



M. pallide villosa ; abdominis apice denticulate-, ano cornuto. 



Megachile odontura, Smith, Zool. vii. App. 58 ; Bees Great Brit. 178. 

 Dours, Cat. Ili/m. de France, 192. 



Male. Length 4£ lines. — Black ; the face densely clothed with 

 bright pale fulvous pubescence ; the mandibles tridentate, and at 

 their base, beneath, a large blunt tooth or tubercle. Thorax 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence, palest at the sides and beneath ; 

 the femora fringed beneath with long pale or whitish pubescence, 

 the posterior tibia? have a similar fringe ; the anterior coxa? have a 

 blunt spine. Abdomen oblong, obtuse at the apex, the two basal 

 segments thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence ; on the fol- 

 lowing segment it is short and fuscous ; and all these have a narrow 

 pale marginal fascia, more or less attenuated in the middle ; the 

 apical margin of the sixth segment denticulate, the teeth being 

 twelve in number ; the seventh segment compressed in the middle, 

 and forming a prominent triangular spine. B.M. 



The specimen in the British Museum is the only one I have seen ; 

 but Dours includes the species in his ' Catalogue des Hymenopteres 

 de France.' The British specimen is from Dr. Leach's collection, and 

 has a numbered ticket attached. On reference to his private manu- 

 script catalogue the entry is found : — " June : found settling on a 

 footpath near our house " at Rpitchwick, Devonshire. 



