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THE ANNALS 



AND 



iUGAZINE OF iNATURAL niSTOEY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 100. APRIL 1916. 



XXX. — Desci'iptions and Records of Bees. — LXXI. 

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



Megachile tasmanica, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 7"6 mm. 



Black with white hair, long on face, cheeks, and under 

 side of thorax ; on front the very long hairs are stained 

 with brownish, and the sc;inty hair on disc of mesothorax is 

 somewhat l)rownish; head large, facial qnadrangle much 

 longer thau broad; mandibles black ; clypeus with a dense 

 beard of pure white hair, but upper part exposed, very 

 densely punctured, but with a smooth shining spot ; antennre 

 slender, black ; mesothorax closely and minutely punctured, 

 without hair-spots, except that there is a small tuft of white 

 hair behind each tegula ; tegulie piceous. Wings dusky 

 gieyish, stigma and nervures black; anterior coxae covered 

 with white hair and without spines ; anterior tarsi formed 

 essentially as in M. leeKivinenais, M. -Waldo, the lobe on 

 second joint large, oval, with a large black spot on a white 

 ground. Abdomen short and broad, densely punctured, 

 the first segment with a tuft of white hair on each side, 

 segments 2 to 4 with thin apical hair-bands, weak in middle; 

 fifth segment with thin glittering white hair ; sixth briefly 

 bidentate, the teeth not far apart. The anterior tarsi, and 

 anterior tibial at apex, are ferruginous. 



Hub. George Town, Tasmanin, Nov. 11), 1911 (F. M. 

 Littler, 2248). 



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