Records of Bees. 223 



at sides and above, the second lias a dense .vliitc lateral 

 ai)ical baud, the third has a trace at sides, and there are 

 three ventral white hair-bands ; clypens densely punctured, 

 with a rudimentary keel (smooth line) ; antennre long and 

 slender ; punctures otdise of mesothorax evidently separated ; 

 sixth abdominal segment broadly rounded, slightly emargi- 

 nate, with a deep median pit ; anterior coxse with small 

 protuberances; anterior tarsi simple; middle tarsi with 

 ochreous hair. 



Hub. Cape York, Queensland, 1909 {Froggatt, 4.0 and 41). 

 The female is the type. 



This species, w hich is extremely like Calioxys iveinlandi, 

 Sehulz, in appearance (this Cojlioxys further approaches the 

 Megachile in having hairless eyes), is evidently related to 

 M. biroi, Friese, but bird has the clypeus keeled in the 

 female. It is also near M. lac/iesis, Smith, but smaller, and 

 the abdomen (m ithout a keel on the sixth segment in the 

 male) diflers considerably from that of lachesis. 



Megachife ficscitarsis, sp. n. 



J . — Length about 14 mm. 



AVith parallel-sided abdomen ; black, including legs and 

 antennoe ; hair of face and front light yellow, long and 

 dense ; hair otherwise rather dull white, with a good deal 

 of black dorsally, that of vertex black, but of occiput white, 

 of mesothorax mixed with black, of scutellum nearly all 

 black ; eyes large, reddish brown ; vertex shining, well 

 punctured ; mesothorax and scutellum dull, densely punc- 

 tured ; tegulae piceous. "Wings strongly suffused Avitli 

 brown, the anterior wings very dark, especially in the 

 costal and apical regions ; b. n. falling far short of t.-m. ; 

 tirst r. n. entering the extreme basal corner of second s.m. 

 Legs with white and black hair, reddish ou inner side of 

 hind tarsi ; middle tarsi with an extremely long posterior 

 fringe, the upper part of which is nearly all black, the lower 

 (apicad) glittering yellowish white; anterior coxae with 

 very large spines ; anterior basitarsi expanded into an 

 enormous flattened structure, which is dark brown or black, 

 with much white hair on the outer side, and has posteriorly 

 a long, thick, black fringe, the base of which has a fringe of 

 short white hair. Abdomen shining, well punctured, with 

 greyish-white hair on first segment and basal part of second, 

 lateral white fringes on the second and third, with a rudi- 

 ment on the fourth, and greyish-white tomeutum (with long 

 black hairs intermixed) about the middle of the fifth and 



