Records of Dees. 535 



tridtutatc, the inner tootli prominent, no basal tootli below; 

 tef;uhe piecous, stained witii iiifons. Wings hyaline, faintly 

 dnsky. Legs i)hick, the tarsi I'errngiiions apically; anterior 

 coxie nnarnied ; anterior tarsi slender, greatly elongated 

 (more than twiee as long as the tibiie), tlieir length being 

 4 mm. Abdomen short, the hind margins of the segments 

 shining brown; first segment and bases of second and third 

 witli pale hair ; second segment very densely and quite 

 strongly jjuuctured, contrasting -with the third, which is 

 shining, with fine weaker pnnetures ; fourth segment (except 

 partly at base, especially laterally), fifth and sixth covered 

 ■with light orange-fulvous hairj apical margin of fourth 

 segment and all of fifth and sixth with the tegument red ; 

 keel of fourth segment obtuse, hardly salient, obscurely 

 bilobed ; uo ajjical spines. 



Hab. Kewell, Australia (Nat. Mus. A'ictoria, 15). 



Perhaps nearest, on the whole, to M. rhodoynstra, CklL, 

 but easily separated by the long, slender, anterior tarsi and 

 other characters. 



Megachile fultoni, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Narrow, HeriaJes-Vike, black, the apical segment of the 

 abdomen (above and below) bright ferruginous red ; ventral 

 scopa white; wings dusky hyaline. 



So close to M. hackeri, Ckll., that I at first thought 

 it identical, but it is readily separated by the following 

 characters : — Flagellum red beneath ; the broad clypeus tri- 

 dentate, one tooth in the middle, the others at the extreme 

 sides ; mandibles fringed with orange hair beneath ; fifth 

 and sixth abdominal segments much less hairy, and the little 

 hair present not distinctly yellowish. 



cJ . — Like that of M. hackeri, but first r. n. meeting first 

 t.-c. (which is not true of the female/?<//o«i) ; lobes of sixth 

 abdominal segment not so close together; flagellum red 

 beneath. 



Hab. Purnong, Australia {S. W. Fidton ; Nat. Mus. 

 Victoria, 59) ; female = type. The male is from W. Aus- 

 tralia (Nat. Mus. Victoria, 58). 



On account of the locality and the diflerent venation the 

 male is perhaps a distinct species, but, if so, this cannot at 

 present be satisfactorily demonstrated. 



Megachile generosa cleomis (Cockerell). 

 Megachile cleomis, described from New Mexico, is a 



