Records of Bees. 53.3 



I am coiifuleut, the same species. They were in Dr. W. H. 

 Ashmeacrs collection, and were named by liim M. addenda, 

 Crcsson, a species to which they have little resemblance. 

 They are very close to the Rocky Mountain M. Sf/jjel/onia, 

 Ckil., difterinjj^ principally by the smaller size (len}<th about 

 15 mm.). The vert(>x, mcsothorax (except in front), and 

 scutellum have much black hair ; middle of clypeus and 

 supraclypcal area very smooth and sparsely punctured ; lower 

 margin of clypeus dentat(% as in sapel/onis ; ventral scofja 

 entirely dilute orange or yellowish w hitc ; wings dusky. Tlie 

 abdomen is conspiciU)usly shiny. The male is readily known 

 from that of sapellunis by the fuscous hair on thorax above 

 and tlie smaller size. 



Megachile indianorum, sp. n. 



S . — Length 1-1 mm., width of abdomen 5i. 



Black, with red legs ; wings pale brown ; face covered 

 with creamy-^vhite hair ; eyes green ; antennae black, 

 not broadened at apex ; tegulse ferruginous, finely punc- 

 tured ; mcsothorax dullish, strongly and closely punctured, 

 with extremely scanty pale hair, no white hair-lines in front; 

 scutello-mesothoracic suture with a moderate amount of 

 white hair ; jjleura densely covered with white hair ; legs 

 bright ferrngiiious except the coxae and trochanters, the 

 middle and hind femora somewhat suffused with blackish ; 

 anterior coxie with short, stout, flattened spines ; anterior 

 tarsi simple, but Avith a thick fringe of white hair behind on 

 the first four joints ; hair on inner side of tarsi pale orange ; 

 middle tarsi also with a white hair-fringe behind ; hind 

 margins of abdominal segments with narrow entire white 

 hair-bands ; keel of sixth segment (apparent apex) rounded, 

 entire, bent dow nwards ; hind margin of sixth segment with 

 four short triangular teeth, the middle ones further apart 

 than either from a lateral one; venter dark reddish. 



Hab. Andmore, Indian Territory, July 11, 2 S {C. R. 

 Jones). Type in U.S. National Museum. 



Very close to AI. deflexa, Crcsson, described from a single 

 male collected in Kansas, and perhaps only a subspecies, 

 but deflexa has the hair of the face yellow, that of mcso- 

 thorax black, the teguhe piceous, and the middle and hind 

 femora black. Another closely related species is M. muco- 

 rosa, Ckll., which is much smaller, and has very much larger 

 teeth on the apical margin of the sixth abdominal segment. 



