the ApiJt^ in the British Museum. 473 



Megachile {Eumegachile} neavei, sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; facie nigro-, geuis infra, thorace oranino, abdominis 

 segmento primo omnino, segmento secundo lateribus albido-hirtis ; 

 segmentis 2 et 3 sparsim, 4-6 dense ferrugineo-tomentosis ; scopa 

 aureo-brunnea, basi pallidiore ; elypeo basi tuberculo mediano 

 lato instructo ; maudibulis forcipatis ; metatarsis angustis ; alis 

 fuscis. 



Long. 16 mm. 



$ . Black ; tlie face densely and vertex sparsely covered 

 with dark pubescence ; the cheeks below, the whole thorax, 

 first abdominal tergite wholly, and second abdominal tergite 

 apico-laterally clothed with white pubescence ; the rest of 

 the abdomen covered with ferruginous-red pubescence, that 

 on segments 2 and 3 much sparser ; legs dark ferruginous, 

 tarsi inclining to black, intermediate and posterior tarsi with 

 rufous pubescence on the inner side. Scopa golden brown, 

 paler at the base. Wings dark brown. 



Clypeus A^ery short, with a broad tubercle in the centre ; 

 mandibles arched, bideutate at apex. Punctui'cd, mandibles 

 and abdomen finely, clypeus, head, and thorax closely and 

 somewhat coarsely. ]\Ietatarsus iii. slender, shorter than 

 and about half as broad as tibia. 

 Length 16 mm. 



^ . Similar to the female in general appearance, but with 

 apex of clypeus and interantennal space covered with white 

 pilosity, coxa i. with a short slender spine, abdominal seg- 

 ment 6 impressed at apex (as in M. chrysorrhoea). 

 2 ? ?,3 (?(?. 



Hab. Lower Luangwa River, N.E. Rhodesia, Sept. 1910 

 [S. A. Neave), type ? ; Ngoa, Nyasaland, 21. x. 1910 (Dr. 

 /. E. S. Old), <S ? ; Fort Jameson, 3800 feet, Oct. 1910, 

 and Luangwa to Petauke, Sept. 1910, N.E. Rhodesia (S. A. 

 Neave), <$ cJ . 



This species comes nearest to M. cornigera, Fr., but differs 

 in having the mandibles 3-toothed (in cornigera they are 

 5-6-toothed) and abdominal segment 1 and part of 2 white-, 

 not black-haired. 



Megachile bailor ensis, sp. n. 



5 . M. (EumegucTiile) rufipedis similis, sed non Eumegacliile. Capite 

 thoraceque antice fusco-, postscutello, segmento mediano, pleuris, 

 abdominisque segmento primo basi pallide flavo-hirtis ; segmentis 

 abdominis 1 apice, 2 et 3 omnino ferrugineo-tomentosis, 4-6 



