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oblique innei* cutting-edge ; vertex and thorax above ex- 

 tremely densely punetured ; antennae black ; tegulae piceous. 

 Wings strongly smoky, brown ; second s.ra. very long. 

 Legs black, the tarsi Avith long white fringes ; anterior 

 coxa} with short, stout, siiarp spines; anterior tarsi simple 

 but rather thick, the apical part of the basitarsus and the 

 second joint whitish, the two apical joints ferruginous ; 

 tlie other tarsi black. Keel of sixth abdominal segment 

 (apparent apex) with two large rounded lobes; much long 

 "white hair on under side of abdomen. Hair on inner side of 

 hind tarsi brownish ferruginous. 



Hah. GO miles N. of Pertli, W. Australia (Victoria Nat. 

 Museum, 2; received from C. French). 



Closely allied to M. iynita, Smith, but that species, as 

 described by Smith, has the hair of the cheeks pale fulvous, 

 and that of " the thorax beneath and on the sides, and also 

 on the legs,^' pale bright yellow. Smith also says that the 

 anterior coxae are unarmed, and this is not a mistake, as it is 

 rejjeated by Meade-Waldo in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Nov. 

 1912, p, 477. Meade- Waldo says abdomen not coarsely 

 punctured in ignita ; I should call that of M. rufolobata 

 rather coarsely punctured, but this may not be significant. 



I have a female from F. Smith's collection, determined by 

 him as M. ignita, and it is certainly not the female of riifo- 

 lohata, but it is perhaps really Smith's female erythropyga. 



Megachile victorice, Cockerell. 



A male taken by S. W. Fulton at Parnong (Nat. Mus. 

 Victoria, 106) shows that when fresh the fifth abdominal 

 segment is clothed, except at sides, with pale fulvous hair ; 

 the patch is relatively inconspicuous, not like the bright red 

 dense patch of some species. 



Megachile simplex, Smith. 



The female varies greatly in size, Meade-Waldo states 

 that the type is 10 mm. long. One from Brisbane {H. 

 Hacker) is about 8^ mm. ; one from Ararat {Hill; Nat. Mus. 

 Victoria, 19) is 12 mm. I cannot see any difference except 

 that of size. 



Megachile cetera^ Cockerell. 



A variety of the female (var. a) from S. Australia {Water- 

 house ; Nat. jNIus. Victoria, 111) has the hair of head (except 

 lower part of cheeks), thorax (except sternal region), and 



