472 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



This species is not a Lithurgus, as recorded by Friese in 

 'Die Bieuen Afrikas,' p. 322. It resembles the European 

 M. niuraria superficially. The clypeus is somewhat of the 

 Chalicodoma type and is crenulated apically. 



Megachile habropodoides, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, hirsuta ; capite, pleuris, abdominis segmentis 1-4 nigro-, 

 segmeiitis 5 et 6 fulvo-ferrugineo-hirsiitis ; pronoto, mesonoto, 

 scutelloque flavo-cinereo-hirsutis ; scopa fulvo-fernigiuea ; clypco 

 subtruncato, apice duobus tuberculis miuutis muiiito ; maudibulis 

 robustis, 4-deutatis ; alis hyaliuis. 

 Long, 15 mm. 



S - Similis sed clypeo flavo-cinereo-hirsuto, prosterno spatioque 

 postoculari griseo pubescentibus ; mandibulis apice ferrugineis, 

 elougatis ; tarsia anterioribus albidis, dilatatis, albo-tomentosis ; 

 coxa i. tuberculo subacute instructa. 



$. Black; head, pleurre, abdominal tergites 1-4, and 

 legs for the most part covered with long black hair ; pro- 

 uotum, mesonotura, and scutellum clothed with a dense 

 cinereous pile ; abdominal tergites 5 and 6 covered with 

 Joug ferruginous hairs ; intermediate and posterior tarsi 

 covered within by dark ferruginous hair. Scopa ferruginous 

 red. Calcaria ferruginous. Wings hyaline, Clypeus sub- 

 truncate, broader than long, armed with two small tubercles 

 at apex ; mandibles massive, 4-toothed. The whole insect 

 somewhat finely and evenly punctured. Metatarsus iii. 

 normal, about as long as tibia. 



Length 15 mm, 



^ . Similar to the female, but with the face and clypeus 

 covered with a long, dense, cinereous pile ; postocellar region 

 and presternum clothed with thin white pubescence. 

 Clypeus black at base, apically ferruginous, somewhat 

 swollen. Anterior tarsi ivory-white, dilated, and fringed 

 with long white hair, anterior coxae provided with stout 

 blunt tubercles. Abdominal segment 7 bidentate. 



43 ? ?,5 J (?. 



Hub. Khamba Jong, Sikkim, 15,000-16,000 feet, 15-30. 

 vii. 1903. Collected by H. T. Walton on the Tibet Expe- 

 dition (1903-4). 



The colouring and general robust facies of this insect 

 strongly recall Bombus and AnthopJiora. 



