222 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descrijytions and 



apex, tlie distance the same in each case. Legs black, 

 anterior tarsi slender and simple. Abdomen closely punc- 

 turedj with white hair on first segment and apically at 

 sides of second, beyond which the hair is short and 

 black, except for the large apical orange-red patch, which 

 extends from the apical middle of the fourth segment, 

 covers the fifth except the sides, and thinly clothes the 

 middle of the sixth ; tegument under the red patch black ; 

 sixth segment very broadly rounded but produced apically, 

 quite entire ; venter with white hair. 



Hab. Rutherglen, Victoria, 1909 {French). From the 

 Froggatt collection, number 60. Froggatt^s 60 a, also 

 collected by French in 1909 at Ruthergleu, is a female 

 M. trichognatha, Ckll. It happens, however, that the male 

 oi trichognatha is known, and by the structure of the abdo- 

 men, especially, is quite distinct from M. holura. 



M. holura is evidently close to M. canifrons. Smith, 

 differing apparently by the black hair on the head and thorax 

 above, and the greater extent of the apical red patch on the 

 abdomen. M. canifrons occurs in Western Australia. 



Megachile cincturata, sp. n. 



? . — Length 13 mm. 



Black, with short black hair, some white at sides of meta- 

 thorax, hair on upper side of first abdominal segment dense 

 and pure white, white also along the extreme base of second, 

 and on its basal two-thirds at sides, abruptly limited apicad ; 

 ventral scopa bright coppery red, blackish red on the last 

 segment and apex of penultimate one ; mandibles broad, 

 with two strong apical teeth and a long inner cutting-edge ; 

 face with short black hair, and some pale to the inner side 

 of bases of antenna} ; clypcus short and broad, rough, 

 wholly without keel, but supraclypeal area obtusely keeled ; 

 antennse black ; head and thorax above dull and roughened ; 

 cheeks much narrower than eyes, sharp-edged posteriorly ; 

 pleura strongly punctured ; tcguke black : upper wings and 

 apical part of lower very dark fuliginous, strongly violaceous ; 

 legs black, hair on hind tarsi very dark reddish. 



^ . — Length about 9i mm. 



Similar to the female ; between the antenncc is a large 

 bunch of white hair, directed ui)wards ; at the sides of the 

 face the hair is white, overlapped in the middle by black ; 

 the lower margin of the clypeus carries a long thick fringe 

 of white hair; lower part of cheeks with long white hair; 

 on the abdomen, the first segment is densely white-haired 



