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men densely clothed above with short deep fulvous pubescence ; 

 beneath, the pollen-brush is of a golden-yellow. 



Obs. This species bears a close resemblance to the M. rufi- 

 ventris of Guerin, but independent of its larger size is distin- 

 guished by the colour- of its wings and posterior legs. 

 Hab. India. 



101. Megachile monticola, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. — Black, the face thickly covered 

 with short black pubescence, the base of the clypeus produced 

 in the middle, and on each side having also a small shining tu- 

 bercle ; below, the produced portion of the clypeus is deeply 

 concave, its anterior margin transverse ; mandibles porrect, tri- 

 dentate at their apex. Thorax, the disk, metathorax and basal 

 segment of the abdomen above densely covered with rich ful- 

 vous pubescence ; wings subhyahue, their apical margins having 

 a fuscous cloud, yellowish towards the base, the nervures ferru- 

 ginous ; the legs and apical segments of the abdomen covered 

 with black pubescence, on the latter it is very short and sparing ; 

 the pollen-brush black. 

 Hab. Silhet; Northern China. (Coll. R. Fortune.) 



102. Megachile carbonaria, n. s. 



Male. Length 5i lines. — Black and shining, the abdomen 

 having in some lights a purple metallic iridescence; the face 

 below the insertion of the antennae densely covered with bright 

 golden pubescence ; wings purple-black, sides of the meta- 

 thorax covered with black pubescence ; disk of the thorax and 

 the abdomen above naked, the apical segment has its margin 

 notched in the middle. 

 Hab. Northern India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



103. Megachile cephalotes, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 44-5 lines. — Black, head subquadrate, ru- 

 gose ; the vertex as well as the disk of the thorax is roughly 

 sculptured transversely ; on each side of the face a little white 

 pubescence ; the sides" of the metathorax covered with white pu- 

 bescence ; wdngs subfuscous, hyaline towards their base ; the 

 legs above have a short white pubescence. Abdomen slightly 

 metallic, the basal margins of the segments much depressed and 

 having bands of white pubescence more or less interrupted, 

 those on the apical segments usually obliterated; the sides of 

 the basal segment have a square white patch ; beneath, the 

 pollen-brush is white. 



