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tlic legs {spissa has front and middle claws Avith a median 

 notch or small tooth, hind ones with an evidcn.t tooth) ; 

 abdomen not stained with red, the hair-bands much broader, 

 and the apical hair much darker and redder. M. spissa has 

 abundant light fulvous hair on the ventral surface of alKlomen, 

 t])at of A', brevicornis being much shorter and mostly paler. 

 The tibial scopa of spissa is beautifully plumose. 



Megachile Harrisoni, sp. n. 



9 . — Length about 16 ram. 



Allied to M. amputata, Sm., from Borneo, M. ferruginea, 

 Fricse, from Siam, and M. rufiijes (Fabr.) from Africa. In 

 Binghara^s table of Indian species it runs to M. dimidiata, Sm., 

 l)ut iias the abdomen and scopa differently coloured. From 

 M. amputata it is readily known by the abdomen not being 

 fasciate ; from M. ferruginea by the dark antenme and the 

 greater amount of red hair on abdomen above. Black ; 

 the legs, except the coxje and the greater part of the 

 trochanters, ferruginous red ; pubescence of body mostly 

 short and moss-like, especially on abdomen above ; hair of 

 head and thorax entirely orange-fulvous, of abdomen above 

 bright orange-fulvous on the tirst three segments and basal 

 half of fourth, beyond that black ; ventral scopa black on last 

 three segments, more or less tipped with red, though not 

 conspicuously ; on segments 2 and 3 the scopa is bright 

 orange-fulvous ; on the first segment is no scopa, but only 

 short yellowish-white hair; hair of legs orange-fulvous. 

 Head rather large ; eyes long, light red ; antennae black, the 

 flagellum dark brownish beueath ; clypeus shining, with 

 punctures of two sizes, and a strong median keel, not 

 reaching anterior margin ; anterior margin straight, not at 

 all emarginate, but appearing finely creuulate when looked 

 at rather from above; mandibles long, with only two teeth, 

 which are apical and occupy much less than halt" of the long 

 cutting-edge ; lateral ocelli much further apart than either is 

 fiom eye; mcsothorax shining, with very numerous and 

 r.'gular, but well-separated punctures ; teguke red, rugulose. 

 AViugs strongly stained with orange, the apical region very 

 broadly dusky; marginal cell with the obtuse apex away 

 from costa ; claws simple. 



Hab. (joenong Soegi, Lampong, Sumatra, Oct.-Nov., 1901 

 {A. C. Harrison, Jr., and Dr. II. M. Hiller). In Coll. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 



In regard to the niandibles, this approaches the subgenus 



