4G4: ]\lr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



mavking of the antennas (Zool. Jalivb. xxxvii. p. 257, fig. a, 

 1914) renders this species verj conspicuous. 



Ischnogaster urnatifrons, Cam. 



Borneo: Sarawak, Mt. Matang, xii. 1913; Mt. Meriiijak, 

 1500 ft., V. 1911 {G, E. Bryant). 



LVIII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXT.V. 

 By T. D. A. CocKEEELL, University of Colorado. 



Megachile nidulator, Smith. 

 ? .—Fife Bay, New Guinea, 1899 (Froggatt coll. 217 c). 



Megachile doddiana, var. clarkei, v. n. 



? . — Hair at sides of first dorsal segment of abdomen 

 entirely black. 



Hah. Geraldton, W. Australia, 1914 {Clarke ; Froggatt 

 coll. 218 c)- 



The specimen also carries the number 169. 



Megachile calens, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 10*5 mm. 



Ventral scopa bright red, black on last segment ; anterior 

 margin of clypeus with a small median tubercle ; wings 

 smoky hyaline, darker apically. 



Like M. diligens, Sm., from Oahu, Hawaiian Is., but 

 larger, hair of vertex black, mesothorax and scutellum with 

 a cousiderable admixture of black hair ; the bright red abdo- 

 minal bands extremely thin or interrupted in middle. 



(^ .—Like M. doanei, Ckll., from Tahiti, the sixth abdo- 

 minal segment strongly bidentate, with a broadly rounded 

 excavation between the teeth ; but hair at sides of upper 

 part of face black instead of brown, scutellum with much 

 black hair, second to fourth abdominal segments with short 

 black hair ou disc, the first segment with no red hair-band, 

 that on second present only at sides, that on third almost 

 obsolete in middle, fifth segment with black hair in 

 middle, especially basally ; sixth segment with longer teeth. 

 Anterior coxae with slender spines ; anterior tarsi slightly 



