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face, front, cheeks, and occiput covered with pale ochreous 

 hair, paler and dense at sides of face, on vertex fulvous, 

 with some fuscous laterally ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 densely punctured but glistening, covered with bright fulvous 

 or fulvo-ferruginous hair ; other parts of thorax with paler, 

 ochreous-tinted hair, becoming dull white beneath ; tegulse 

 bright ferruginous. Wings pale brownish, nervures piceous. 

 Legs black, with pale hair, red on inner side of middle and 

 anterior tarsi, but reddish black on inner side of hind ones ; 

 middle basitarsi with reddish hair on outer side; joints 2 to 

 4 of middle tarsi broadened ; spurs pale ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men broad and short, shining, punctured, not at all metallic ; 

 basal segment and sides of second with much pale ochreous 

 hair ; hind margins of segments 3 to 5 with thin pale hair- 

 bands, the discs of these segmeuts, especially at sides, 

 having black hair (the third segment has pale hair in middle) ; 

 sixth segment gently concave in lateral profile, almost b.'ue, 

 •with no light hair ; ventral scopa long, creamy white, black 

 on last two segments and at sides of the one before. 



Hab. Harima, Japan, May 1912 (Fukai, 45). U.S. 

 National INJuseum. 



In Friese's table of Palccarctic Megachile this runs to 

 M. piciconds, except as to the antennie. In his table of 

 Oriental species it runs to 29, but is not either of the species 

 there indicated. It does not appear to be very close to any 

 recorded Japanese or Chinese species. Superficially M. huri- 

 metisis looks just like a rather small M. circnmcincta, but on 

 closer examinatioQ it is seen to differ in many ways. 



Megachile vagata, Vachal. 



Argentina {Fitzgerald ; British Museum, 99. 124). 1 ^. 



Tliis specimen is about 10 mm. long, but otherwise agrees 

 with Vachal's description. The anterior femora and tibije 

 arc red on the outer side ; the spines on anterior coxae arc 

 small. The species is allied to M.jenseni, Friese. 



Megachile dentvpes, Vachal. 

 Argentina (0. W. Thomas; British Museum, 1904. 148). 



Vachal's description sufficiently indicates this striking 

 species, with extraordinary anterior tarsi, and the middle 

 femora sharply toothed beneath in the middle. The following 

 may be added : — Mandibles with a large red patch; labrum 

 dull testaceous; fringe of hair on inner border of anterior 



