534: Mr. T. D. A. Cockeiell — Descriptions and 



Megachile recisa, sp. u. 



^ . — Length 10 mm. 



llatlier robust, blacky ■with the hair mostly rather dull 

 white ; head and thorax above very densely and finely punc- 

 tured, but shining ; head seen from in front rounded, a little 

 broader than long ; face covered with long white hair, vertex 

 with fuscous hair; antennae simple, not especially long, dark, 

 the fourth joint red beneath; mandibles hairy ; iiair of disc 

 of mesothorax (which is scanty) and of scutellum fuscous, of 

 rest of thorax white; tegulse rufo-piceous, densely punc- 

 tured. Wings rather dilute fuliginous. Legs with white 

 hair ; femora black, the anterior ones beneath with two 

 conspicuous lines of white hair, the surface between them 

 shining ; tibiae black, red at apex, the anterior pair also red 

 in front and behind, but only apically on outer side ; tarsi 

 light red, the anterior ones slightly broadened, the third 

 joint beneath with an intense black oval spot ; anterior coxae 

 Mvith rather short stout spines in the midst of long white 

 hair. Abdomen shining, the hind margins of the segments 

 with pale hair-bauds, that on first reduced to a large white 

 patch on each side, that on the third, and especially that on 

 the fourth, suffused with ochreous ; fifth segment covered 

 with very pale appressed ochreous hair, sixth with white 

 hair except the keel ; keel (apparent ajiex) of sixth segment 

 reddish, shining, broadly and squarely truncate, but with a 

 rounded median emargination ; at each extreme side of the 

 segment is a sharp red tooth ; in the middle, beneath the 

 keel, are two prominent red spines, curving laterad ; venter 

 covered with white hair. 



Hab. K^well, Australia (Nat. Mus. Victoria, 14). 



llelated to 31. modesta, Smith, but that has the two basal 

 joints of the two anterior tarsi " white, flattened and ex- 

 panded.^^ Another example of M. recisa is from Brisbane 

 (//. Hacker, Queensland Mus. 74); collected Sept. 24, 1912. 



Meyachile ramulipes, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 10 mm. 



Of the parallel-sided type, but not slender ; black, with 

 the pubescence mostly white, that on the face dense and 

 shining clear white ; head and thorax above strongly ex- 

 tremely densely punctured, the punctures on the vertex 

 larger than those on the thorax ; antennae very long and 

 slender, the short third joint red beneath, the flagellum very 

 faintly brownish beneatli, the scape very short ; mandibles 



