364 ]\Ir. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Megachile lineaiipes, sp. n. 



(J. — Length about 10^ mm. 



Black, broad and robust; eyes green, converging below; 

 face covered with long cream-coloured hair; mandibles 

 black ; vertex densely punctured, its hair partly fuscous ; 

 antennffi black; hair of thorax white below, greyish white 

 above, long and black on disc of scutellum and largely black 

 on mesothorax ; mesothorax and scutellum very densely 

 rugoso-punctate ; tegul» piceous. Wings dusky. Anterior 

 coxtB with long curved black spines, which are reddish at 

 extreme tip ; anterior part of coxa yellowish, with a comb of 

 four long ferruginous linear spines; anterior femora ferru- 

 ginous (blackened behind apically), greatly flattened and 

 expanded, sharply keeled below, and obtusely angulate 

 toward base, the basal half of the broad inner surface with 

 fine zebra-like black lines or stripes ; their tibias trigonal, 

 very short and thick, the outer surface (except the anterior 

 apical corner very broadly) black or nearly, the inner apical 

 margin blackened ; their tarsi cream-colour^ flattened and 

 expanded, with an oval reddish lobe about the middle ante- 

 riorly, and behind with a long pale fringe, the hairs fuscous- 

 tipped ; on the inner edge (especially on the basitarsus) is a 

 fringe of stiff black hairs ; the other legs are black, with 

 white hair, yellowish on inner side of tarsi ; hind tarsi very 

 thick ; spurs black. Abdomen short, with black hair, white 

 and loose on first segment ; segments 2 to 4 with narrow 

 white hair-bands ; apical half of fifth segment in middle, and 

 sixth above, except apically, clothed with pale fulvous hair ; 

 sixth with two very strong teeth or spines, wide apart ; no 

 ventral spine. 



Eeadily separated from M. latipes, Sm., by the two sharp 

 teeth at end of abdomen. It is really much closer to M. chry. 

 sopyga, but has the anterior tarsal lobe paler and much more 

 reduced than in that species. It is even nearer to M. phena- 

 copyga, but distinct by the anterior legs. 



Hub. Kuranda, Cairns, Queensland, Jan. 1902 (Turner). 

 British Museum. 



The specimen is also marked E, which may refer to the 

 collector. 



Megachile striceicauda, sp. n. 



S . — Length 9-10^ mm. 



Black, without any red at apex of abdomen ; eyes doubtless 



