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89. Megachile anthracina, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 7-8i lines. — Black, the face above the cly- 

 peus as high as the anterior stemma thickly clothed with short 

 black pubescence, the anterior margin slightly produced in the 

 middle; the mandibles stout, having above some longitudinal 

 punctures, and two grooves towards their apex, which is armed 

 with two sharp teeth. Thorax above naked, shining and strongly 

 punctured; each side of the metathorax thickly covered with 

 sooty-black pubescence ; wings dark fuscous, having a brilhant 

 violaceous iridescence. Abdomen shining above, and having 

 more or less of a changeable blue tinge ; beneath, the pollen- 

 brush is blackish-brown. 

 Hab. India. 



90. Megachile conjuncta, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 Unes. — Black, the face clothed with black 

 pubescence, at the lateral margins of the clypeus and on the 

 mandibles a httle cinereous pubescence ; the metathorax a.nd 

 basal segment of the abdomen clothed above with yellowish 

 white pubescence, on the disk of the thorax anteriorly it is 

 sooty-black ; wings broadly fuscous towards their apex, the base 

 hyaline ; all the tarsi beneath are fulvous, on the intermediate 

 pair above the pubescence is fulvous ; the posterior legs have a 

 cinereous pubescence, and the basal joint of the posterior tarsi 

 is dilated; the calcaria pale testaceous. The abdomen above 

 has a metallic hue, and has a httle black pubescence along its 

 lateral margins ; beneath, the pollen-brush is bright fulvous. 



Male. — This sex bears a strong resemblance to the female, but 

 is rather smaller ; the face covered with white pubescence, the 

 middle of the clypeus being naked, the anterior tarsi simple and 

 the coxae unarmed ; the claws ferruginous, the calcaria black ; 

 the apical segment of the abdomen entire, having a deep depres- 

 sion in the centre. 



Hab. India ; Bengal. (The male in the Coll. of W. W. Saun- 

 ders, Esq.) 



91. Megachile umbripennis, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, the face has a thin clothing 

 of black pubescence, between the insertion of the antennae and 

 the anterior stemma it is slightly fulvous; mandibles porrect, 

 deeply grooved and sculptured longitudinally, and armed with 

 four stout teeth, the two apical ones acute ; the cheeks and tho- 

 rax beneath have a thin short cinereous pubescence ; the thorax 



