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u pale yellow pubescence ; beneath, the pollen-brush is pale 

 yellow in the middle and bright fulvous at the sides. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



94. Megachile rufipes, n. s. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, the face covered with a yel- 

 lowish white pubescence, becoming fulvous at the insertion of the 

 antennae; mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax very thinly 

 clothed above with fulvous pubescence, on the sides and beneath 

 it is cinereous ; the legs red, the anterior pair have a tooth on 

 their coxffi, and their tarsi dilated, the basal joint becoming gra- 

 dually broader fi-om the base to the apex ; the second and fol- 

 lowing joints veiT slightly dilated ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, their 

 apical margins slightly fuscous, the nervures pale ferruginous; 

 towards the apex of the wing they become black. Abdomen, 

 the apical margins of the segments ferruginous, narrowly fi-inged 

 with fulvous pubescence, the apical segment ferruginous and 

 deeply depressed at the apex, the two apical segments covered 

 with short fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the margins of the seg- 

 ments pale ferruginous, the apical segments have a short, thin, 

 white pubescence. 

 Hab. East Indies. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



95. Megachile imitatrix, n. s. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — The face, vertex and metathorax 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence, a fringe of the same colour on 

 the anterior femora beneath, that on the cheeks is paler ; the 

 thorax beneath, its sides, and also the metathorax and legs, black ; 

 the abdomen entirely black, pubescent above, very densely so 

 beneath. 

 Hab. India ? (Coll. W. H. L. Walcott, Esq.) 



96. Megachile grandis. B.M. 

 Megachile grandis, St. Fary. Hym. ii. 333. 6. 



Hab. ? 



97. Megachile lanata. B.M. 



Apis lanata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 335. 90. 

 Anthophora lanata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 372. 1 . 

 Megachile lanata, St. Fary. Hym. ii. 342. 15. 



Hab. India. 



Obs. Fabricius has given for the habitat of this species South 

 America ; one of the most common species from India in every 



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