470 Mr. G. Meade- Waldo on 



4. r A_bdomen basally red, apically black ; wings 



<| clear hyaline. L. 12 mm. (Natal,) . . hasalis. 

 i Wings fusco-hyaline 5. 



5. f Thorax with dense rufous pubescence ; 



abdomen covered with grey pubescence, 

 I densest on apical margin of segments, 

 J scopa whitish. L. 13 mm. (Gambia.), discolor. 



[=fiiUeborni, Fr.) 

 Thorax somewhat sparsely clothed with 

 ochraceous pubescence, abdomen and 

 scopa fulvous 6. 



6. f Metatarsus iii. flattened, abdominal tergites 

 j with broad apical fascite. L. 13 mm. 



J (Cape of Good Hope.) eiiryjnera. 



j Metatarsus iii. linear, fulvous pubescence 

 I more sparse towards apex. L. 16 mm. 

 l^ (Cape of Good Hope.) dorsata. 



The above species are not included in Friese's table of 

 African Megachile ('Die Binen Afrikas/ p. 327 et seq.), and 

 though included in ' Das Tierreich,' Lief. 28, p. 274 et seq., 

 it seems that a further short table taken from the actual 

 types is not superfluous. 



Of the species not tabulated by Friese in his African 

 monograph^ M. macidata and M. perplexa are omitted here, 

 as it has not been possible to identify the types^ which were 

 in the collection of the late W. W. Saunders. 



Megachile fervida, Smith. 



Osmia fervida, Sm. Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. i. p. 142 (1853). c?- 

 Meqachile intricata, Sm. Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 01. no. 1 (1879). 



Smith marked the male of M. intricata as his type, and it 

 agrees in every respect with his Osmia fervida. There are no 

 females of the latter species, but a female of M. intricata is 

 certainly Megachile sens. str. 



Megachile {Eumegachile) paucipunctulata, W. F. Kirby. 



Megachile paucipunctulata, Kirby, Bull. Liverpool Museum, vol. iii. 



p. 21 (1900). 2 ■ 

 Megachile {^Eumegachile) sokotrana, Friese, Zeitschr. Hym. Dipt. 



Bd. iii. p. 287 (1903). $. 



An examination of Kirby^s type proves that Kohl was 

 correct in placing the species in this subgenus. 



Megachile discolor, Smith. 

 Megachile discolor, Smith, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. i. p. 157 (1853). 



Megachile fidleborni, Friese, Zeitschr. Hym. Dipt. Bd. iii. p. 281 (1903). 



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