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HYMENOPTERA. 



56. Megachile rufipes. 



Apis rufipes, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 328. 62. 

 Authopliora niti|)i's, Fabr. Syst. Pie:, p. 374. 11. 



Hab. Siena Leoue. 



B.M. 



5/. Megachile barbata, n. s. 



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

 long pale ochraccous ])iibescence, which becomes nearly white 

 towards the margin of the clypeus, the clieeks liave a dense long 

 white beard ; the thorax beneath and all the legs have a similar 

 white pubescence, on the thorax above it is slightly ochraceous ; 

 wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins, the 

 ner%'ures black ; the anterior tarsi and coxae simple, the femora 

 at their apex beneath rufo-testaceous, all the tarsi beneath ful- 

 vous, the calraria pale testaceous, claws ferruginous, their tips 

 black. Abdomen short, ver\' convex above, the segments have 

 a narrow white fascia, broadest at the sides, more or less inter- 

 rupted on the three basal segments, the apical segment irregu- 

 larly dentate and notched in the middle. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



58. Megachile ungulata, n. s. 



Male. Length 4^ lines. — Black, head broader than the 

 thorax ; the face densely covered with a bright pale yellow pubes- 

 cence, on the vertex it inclines to fulvous ; on the cheeks, thorax 

 and legs beneath, it is of a ver}' pale bright j^ellow ; apex of the 

 mandibles ferruginous ; legs dai'k rufo-testaceous, the anterior 

 femora and tibia in front and their tarsi testaceous, the latter 

 slightly dilated and fringed with white pubescence ; apical joints 

 of the tarsi bright ferruginous, the claw-joints as long as the 

 rest of the tarsi, tips of the claws black ; the posterior tibiae 

 incrassate. Abdomen short, and having at the base some long 

 fulvous pubescence ; the sides of the three basal segments pale 

 rufo-testaceous, which is the colour of the abdomen beneath ; 

 the margins of the three apical segments above narrowly tes- 

 taceous ; towards the apex the pubescence is fuscous, intermixed 

 wth fulvous ; the sLxth segment notched in the middle. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



59. Megachile apiformls, n. s. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head and thorax black, on the 

 sides of the face, along the margins of the eyes, the pubescence 

 is short and white, below the insertion of the antennae are some 



