196 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



between ocelli ; thorax auteriorly, and tubercles, witb white 

 hair, but hair of mesopleura black ; tegulse .smaller. Wings 

 sliorter, marginal ceil less sluirply acuminate, second suh- 

 maroinal cell much shorter ; hind basitarsi curved but 

 simple, not enlarged at end. Ahdomen above very smooth 

 and shining, not distinctly roughened or })unctured ; black 

 liair at sides of fifth and sixth segments much shorter. In 

 Friese's table it runs to L. dentipes, Smith, but the true 

 dentipes is Australian, and has pale yellow hair on face and 

 ferruginous nervures ; the stigma and nervures are reddish 

 fu-cous in L. australior, and the disc of the thorax, except 

 anteriorly, has black hair. 



Coimbatore, S. India, Nov. 12, 1913. 



The abdomen is distinctly narrower than in L. atratus. 



Coelioxys [Liothyrapis) dormitans, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 13 mm. ; anterior wing 7*8 mm. 



Black, including antennte, tegulse, legs, and spurs ; 

 pubescence pure white, abundant and dense on face, on the 

 al)domen forming interrupted bands in the depressions, and 

 marginal bands, evanescent or failing in middle; eyes dark 

 brown, hairless: mesothorax and scutellum very densely and 

 stronoly punctured, except that in the middle the shining 

 surface can be seen between the punctures (very narrowly 

 and slightly on scutellum) ; scutellum convex, obtusely 

 subangular posteriorly; axillar spines reduced to short 

 obtuse tubercles. Wings dusky, but not strongly darkened ; 

 anterior coxse with sliai-p spines. Abdomen shining, well 

 punctured, the punctures on second segment conspicuously 

 larger than those on third ; terminal segment with a long 

 sul)basal spine on each side ; apex produced, deeply sulcate, 

 with no median spine ; lower apical spines sharp and diver- 

 gent, upper apical divisions briefly bidentate or tridentate. 

 Kelated to C. apicata, Smith, but the end of the abdomen is 

 different. In C. apicata the second submarginalcell receives 

 the first recurrent nervure some distance from its end; in 

 C. dormitans the first recurrent meets the first trans verso- 

 cubital nervure. (The C. apicata compared is from 

 F. Smith's collection.) 



Coimbatore, S. India, May 25, 1913, sleeping on grass. 



Megachile [Eumegachile) triangulifrons , sp. n. 



$ . — Length 15 mm. 

 Agreeing in all respects with Smith's description of his 



