456 Mr. G. Meade- Waldo on 



tarsus iii. coarsely granulose. V/ings flavo-hyaline, the 

 costal lialf with conspicuous pilosity. 



(^ , Siiiiihvr, except for a conspicuous -SAhite pubescence 

 beneath the head, the antennae, as frequent in this sex, 

 rather longer. 



I ?,1(J. 



Borneo: Sarawak, Mt. Matang, 12-13, xii. 1913 (G. E. 

 Bryant). 



This fine insect is strongly reminiscent of a hive-bee or of 

 species o£ New- World Melipona of the fuhlpes-scutellaris 

 group. It is quite unlike any described species of Antludium 

 from the Oriental llegion. 



Megachile malayana, Gam., var. auriceps, no7. 



2 . M. mdlayancB similis, sed vertice dense aureo-hirsuto. 

 Long. 18 mm. 



This extremely handsome insect is evidently a variety of 

 M. malayana, Cam., described in P. Z. IS. 1901, j). '2\b, from 

 the male sex. It may be noted that Cameron makes a rather 

 serious lapsus calami in liis Latin diagnosis, where lie says 

 " capite tiioraceque dense nigro-pilosis.'" Tliis is rectilied 

 in his English descriiition. 



A characteri.-tie ieature of J/, malayana is, of course, the 

 conspicuous white pubescence on tlie head. In tlie new 

 variety diagnosed above this white pubescence is replaced by 

 golden. 



Tlieie is a $ o£ the typical form in tlie British Museum 

 fiom the Mimika River, vii. 1910 (^A. F. IL Wodaston), vide 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. («) ix. p. 451 (1912). The new 

 variety has the following data attached : — 



Dutch New Guinea : Snow Mts., 4000-6000 ft., i.-ii. 

 1913 {A.F. R. WoUa^ton). 



Megachile (^Eumegachile) alrafiformis, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; alis flavc-hyalinis, margins aj^icali infascata ; clypeo 

 brevissimo, aj)ice vix punctato, carina longitudinali mediaiia in- 

 structo, labro apice obtuse, impunctato, aureo-sericeo ; mesouoto 

 sulcis longitudinalibus iustructis, percrasse rugosissimeque punc- 

 tato. 



Long. 20 mm. 



Strongly resembling M. atrata, F. Smith, in superficial 

 chaiacters, but differing therefrom as follows : — 



