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113. Megachile LATiCEPS, n. s. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black, the head wider than the tho- 

 rax, the face, sides of the thorax and the basal segment of the 

 abdomen covered with a golden-yellow pubescence, the cheeks 

 covered with long pale yellow pubescence ; the wings subhyaline, 

 faintly clouded at their apex ; the anterior tarsi simple, the coxa; 

 unarmed, the anterior and intermediate tarsi behind, and the 

 posterior pair before, fringed with long pale pubescence ; all the 

 tarsi pale fulvous beneath. The apical margins of the segments 

 of the abdomen have laterally a little pale pubescence, the apical 

 segment notched in the middle. 

 Hub. Phihppine Islands. 



114. Megachile ornata, n. s. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Black, on each side of the face is 

 a little black pubescence, and in front of the insertion of the an- 

 tennae an elevation extending to the base of the clypeus, which 

 from thence descends obliquely to its anterior margin, which is 

 transverse. Thorax, the sides have a little cinereous pubescence, 

 the legs rugose above, and having a thinly scattered stiff black 

 pubescence, the tarsi fulvous beneath ; wings subhyaline, and 

 having a fuscous cloud at then* apical margins. The four basal 

 segments of the abdomen have a black pubescence, the apical 

 margin of the fourth has a narrow fulvous fascia, and the lifth 

 segment is covered with pale yellow pubescence, the sixth having 

 a few scattered pale hairs ; on each side of the second segment 

 is a small spot of fulvous pubescence ; the pollen-brush bright 

 fulvous-red. 

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



115. Megachile flavitarsata, n. s. 



Male. Length 5-6 lines. — Black, the face densely covered 

 with pubescence of a bright golden -yellow colour ; the flagellum 

 fulvo-testaceous beneath ; the anterior legs pale rufo-testaceous, 

 the extreme apex of the femora and base of the tibise above fus- 

 cous, the tarsi pale yellow, broadly dilated, gradually decreasing 

 in width from the base to the claw-joint ; the tarsi have a thick 

 fringe behind, which is bright yellow on the basal segment, and 

 white on the following ones, its margin being yellow ; the coxae 

 armed with stout teeth ; the intermediate and posterior legs 

 rufo-testaceous, their tarsi ilavo-testaceous, fringed with long 

 ])ale hairs and covered with bright golden-yellow pubescence. 

 Abdomen, the two basal segments have a thin pale fulvous pu- 

 bescence, on the following it is short and black ; the apical mar- 

 gins of the segments have a narrow pale fascia ; the apical mar- 



