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bonaria. However, I uow have before me two workers of 

 carbonaria, collected by Mr. Turner at Mackay, April 1900, 

 at flowers of Xanthorrhoea, and September 1894. The 

 latter bears the number 318, which was also used for male 

 cassicE. 



Megachile lanata (Fabricius). 



INIr. W. Biithn sends me a female which he obtained near 

 Gordon Town, Jamaica, 1911. The species is East Indian, 

 and has doubtless been introduced, as it has in Trinidad. 

 Fox has described it fi'ora Kingston, Jamaica, as Megachile 

 rnartindalei. In Turton's edition of the ' Systema Naturae,^ 

 Ajns lanata is said to occur in the " South American 

 Islands." 



Centris lepeletieri, sp. n. 



Centris hcemoryJwidalis, Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Ins. Iljmeuop. ii.p. 155. 

 (S. Domingo.) 



The Fabrician C. hemorrhoidalis was briefly described 

 from the West Indies, no special locality being cited. I 

 believe the name may properly be applied to the Jamaican 

 species, which differs from that of S. Domingo by having 

 the first four abdominal segments and the base of the fifth 

 blue in the male, and in the female the first four blue, the 

 apical margin of the fourth reddish. In the face-markings 

 C. lepeletieri resembles C. elegans, Sm., from St. Vincent, 

 rather than the Jamaica insect. I have a pair of C. hemor- 

 rhoidalis collected by Mr. Biithn near Gordon Town, Jamaica, 

 from which I note some characters not brought out by the 

 published descriptions. 



Centris heemorrhoidalis (Fabricius). 



S . — Anterior tibiae with a longitudinal cream-coloured 

 stripe; posterior long hairs on hind basitarsus tipped with 

 white. 



? . — Clypeus black ; very sparsely punctured, with a small 

 round cream-coloured spot near each anterior corner ; lateral 

 face-marks reduced to a stripe along each orbital margin ; 

 a small triangular supraclypeal mark ; anterior tibiie with a 

 short oblique white stripe; second abdominal segment with- 

 out the lateral light spots seen in the male ; hind basitarsal 

 liairs not tipped with white. 



Ht/lcoides concinna (Fabricius). 

 Sydney and Cook's River, Australia {Froggatt), 



