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HYMENOPTERA. 



43. Megachile fimbriata, n. s. 



Male. Length 5i lines. — Black, the face densely clothed with 

 white pnbesoence. the flafiellum ferriiginous beneath ; the man- 

 dibles very broad to about half their length, whence they are 

 abrujitly narrowed. Thora.x, the disk thinly covered with a short 

 fulvous ])ul)esccnce, at the sides of the metathorax it is long and 

 pale ; wings subhyaline, their ajjical margins clouded ; the an- 

 terior logs pale ferruginous, their tarsi dilated, pale ferruginous, 

 and having a marginal fringe, white at the base and fulvous at 

 its outer margin, the coxaj armed with stout spines ; the inter- 

 mediate and ])osterior legs dark ferruginous, their tarsi fringed 

 \>'ith long Avhite hairs. Abdomen, the pubescence at the sides 

 cinereous, the basal segment has a fringe of short bright fulvous 

 ])ubescence, on the other segments it is ])aler, and on the apical 

 one it is very short and cinereous ; the apex has a deep depression 

 in the middle, bidentate in the centre and crenulated at the 

 sides. 

 Hab. The Gambia. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



44. Megachile imitata, n. s. 



B.M. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, the face has a sooty-black 

 pubescence, the clypeus anteriorly broadly emarginate ; man- 

 ilibles longitudinally sculptured, having two or three grooves to- 

 wards their apex, which is obsoletely bidentate, the tooth at the 

 apex rounded ; wings fuscous, at the sides of the metathorax a 

 little fulvous pubescence, on other parts of the thorax it is sooty- 

 black ; on the legs above it is \^a.\e fulvous, and on the tarsi 

 beneath bright fulvous ; the calcaria and claws ferruginous. Ab- 

 domen entirely covered with fulvous pubescence. 



Male. — Coloured as in the other sex, the face clothed with 

 long white pubescence. Thorax, the tegulse rufo-testaceous, the 

 anterior femora, tibije and tai'si, and the apical joints of the in- 

 termediate and ])osterior tarsi, ferruginous ; the posterior legs 

 covered with cinereous pubescence, as well as the thorax and 

 abdomen beneath. 



Obs. This species in general appearance closely resembles M. 

 mystaceu and M. rujiventris, particularly the male : the most ap- 

 parent differences are pointed out. 

 Hab. South Africa. (Dr. A. Smith.) 



45. Megachile cyanipennis. 



Megachile cvanipennis, Gner. Icon. Reg. Anim. p. 450 j Voy. 

 Abyss. (Lefeb.) vi. 363. 



Hub. Senegal. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



