Records of Bees. 4G5 



broadened, having lateral, brownish, keel-like outer margins 

 {doanei has the same). 



IJoh. New Hebrides. The female is marked '' Kpi, 

 W. W. F., 191.'3, 211 c," the male " E'n, lUlli, VV. W. l'\, 

 213 r." From Froggatt's eollection. 



Known from AJ. funbriventris, Fr., by the scopa l)lack 

 only on last segment, the form of end of male abdomen, &c. 



In my table in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1911, p. 175, the 

 female M. calens runs to 16, but is quite distinct from the 

 two species there given. The male runs to M. icooilfordi, 

 Ckll., but the struetui'e of the sixth abdominal segment is 

 quite different. Owing to the feebly banded abdomen it 

 could run to M. rnortyana, D. T., but that difl'ers in the 

 colour of the tarsi. M. calens is readily known from 

 M. similis, Sm., by the light hair of the face. The male is 

 the type. 



Megachile serricauda, Coekerell, 



c?.— New Hebrides; "Epi, 1913, W. W. F., 2U c" 

 (Froggatt coll.). 



This AustraUan species has presumably been introduced, 

 perhaps with timber carrying the nests. 



Megachile laboriosa, Smith, variety a. 



^ . — Binaturi R., Papua, March 1913 (Froggatt coll. 

 215 c). 



Smith's description is too brief, but Friese and Meade- 

 Waldo have supplied some additional characters. The 

 species, as I have determined it, is allied to M. aberrans, 

 Friese, but has the abdomen beyond the third segment 

 clothed with reddish hair, mixed with fuscous. The size 

 (length about 13*5 mm.) is greater than Smith indicates. 

 The cheeks have white hair beneath and the sixth abdominal 

 segment has a median keel. The wings are dark fuseo- 

 ferruginous. The coloured figure published by Friese only 

 differs from my specimen in having the apical part of tiie 

 abdomen a much more lively red. In the list accompanying 

 the specimens the locality is given as " Biuitura R." 



Megachile aurifrons, Smith. 

 ? .— Brewarrina, N.S.W., 1914 {Froggatt, 205 c). 



Megachile chrysopyga, Smith. 



? . — Geraldton, W. Australia, 1914 {Clarke, 172; Froggatt 

 coll. 209 c). 



