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lieail and thorax above, but the pubesceuce is stained with 

 brown. It possibly represents a distinct race. All the 

 specimens, except that from [Sydney, arc from the Froggatt 

 collection. 



Meyachile glaberr'ima, Friese, appears to be very close to 

 M. quinqueimeatay Ckll. ; both were taken by Turner at 

 flowers of heliotrope at Mackay. M.glaberriiiia (litters from 

 qu'uiquelineata in having the hair of head and thorax all 

 white, according to Friese's account. 



Megachile trichognatha tosticauda, subsp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Agrees wiih 3/. trichognatha, except that it is smaller, 

 with the apical median clypeal elevation very small or 

 absent ; the lower margin of the clypeus rather obscurely 

 crenulate ; the tlagellum bright ferruginous beneath ; and 

 the punctures of upper part of head and thorax con- 

 sjjicuously larger. The ventral scopa is entirely white ; the 

 fifth and sixth abdominal segments above, and the hind 

 margin of the fourth, are almost entirely covered with 

 fulvous hair; the tegument of the apical part of the abdo- 

 men is black, except the hind margin of the fifth segment, 

 which is narrowly red. Also close to M. eucalypti, Ckll., 

 Init smaller, with the autennte difterently coloured, and not 

 so much of the abdomen fulvous-haired. 



Hab. ^Mackay, Queensland, December 1910 (Turner). 

 British Museum. 



Probably a distinct species, but so close to M. tricho- 

 gnatha that, with only two specimens, and no male, I treat 

 it as a subspecies. Superficially, the insect looks like an 

 unusually slender M. gilbertiella, Ckll. 



Megachile holura, sp. u. 



(^ . — Length about 9^ mm. 



Parallel-sided, black, with black and white hair, and a 

 large red apical hair- patch on abdomen ; hair of head and 

 thorax long, white, but black on vertex, mesothorax, and 

 disc of scutellum ; head large but normal ; clypeus normal, 

 very densely punctured ; autenuje long and slender, entirely 

 black ; upper part of head dull and extremely densely punc- 

 tured, but there is a shining area laterad of each posterior 

 ocellus ; mesothorax and scutellum densely punctured ; 

 tegidse black. Wings hyaline, with a brownish tint, nervures 

 dark ; recurrent nervures joining second s.m. near base and 



