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130. Megachile villosa. B.M. 

 Apis villosa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 336. 94. 



Hab. India? 



131. Megachile curvipes, n. s. B.M. 



Male. Length .5^ lines. — Black, the face densely clothed 

 with bright golden-yellow pubescence, at the base of the clypeus 

 intermixed with black hairs ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; 

 the cheeks beneath have a marginal line of white pubescence. 

 Thorax, the disk sparingly covered with short fulvous pubes- 

 cence, at the sides of the metathorax it is cinereous ; wings fulvo- 

 hyaline, the tegulfe and nervures ferruginous ; the anterior and 

 intermediate legs rufo-testaceous, the anterior tarsi broadly di- 

 lated, the basal joint produced at the apex, forming a rounded 

 lobe at the extremity ; the whole tarsus having a thick fringe 

 of white pubescence, fulvous at its margin, the coxae armed with 

 stout spines ; the intermediate tarsi behind and posterior paii' in 

 front have a loose fi'inge of long white pubescence, the posterior 

 femora have a short tooth about the middle beneath, the tibia 

 being arcuate ; the basal segment of the abdomen covered with 

 fulvous pubescence, and the three following segments fringed 

 with the same ; the apical segment has a deep depression in the 

 middle, its margin being notched. 



Hab. Brazil. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



132. Megachile rubricata, n. s. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, the sides of the face below 

 the insertion of the antennae covered with griseous pubescence, 

 above the antennae as high as the anterior stemma it is fulvous, 

 as well as on the margin of the vertex ; the scape of the an- 

 tennae black, the flagellum red, dusky above. Thorax, the pu- 

 bescence on the disk fulvous, palest on the sides and beneath ; 

 wings flavo-hyaline, tegulae and nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; 

 the legs of the same colour ; the coxae, trochanters and base of 

 the femora black, thinly covered with pale fulvous pubescence, 

 the anterior and intermediate tarsi thickly covered above ; the 

 basal joint of the posterior tarsi broadly dilated. Abdomen, the 

 sides of the basal segment and the margins of the segments 

 fringed with ]jale fulvous pubescence ; the pollen-brush nearly 

 white, its apex black. 

 Hab. Brazil. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



