53-1 ^Ir. T. D. A. Cockerell — Dcscripiions and 



In some of its cliaracters it resembles M. ohlonga, Sm.^" 

 chrysoptjga, Sm., and heriadiformis, Sm., but it is quite dis-? 

 tinct. It has the form of the American M. pugnata, Say. 



Megachile Waterhousei, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 13 mm.; width of abdomen 5 mm. 



Black, with white pubescence^ abundant and quite long on 

 front, sides of face, cheeks, pleura, and metathorax, and 

 forming a spot above each tegula ; hair black or dark fuscous 

 on vertex, and a little on tlie practicall}' nude mesothorax, 

 some black also on the ventral surface of thorax ; head 

 broad; flagellura dull reddish beneath; clypeus confluently 

 punctured, with a median impunctate line; anterior margin 

 of clypeus irregular ; mandibles with two well-formed teeth, 

 the inner angle hardly forming a tooth ; mesothorax dullish, 

 extremely densely punctured ; tegulee ferruginous, wnth a 

 fuscous spot, and the anterior margin broadly subhyaline. 

 Wings only slightly dusky, upper half of marginal cell with 

 a fuliginous streak ; nervures piceous, second r. n. not 

 meeting second t.-c. Basal joint of hind tarsi broad and flat:, 

 the hair ou its inner side yellowish fuscous; apical pro- 

 jections of middle and anterior tibiae tipped with red ; hind 

 spurs black ; abdomen broad, with five white hair-bands ; 

 scopa white, black on last segment, and some black at 

 extreme sides of third and following segments. 



Hub. Queensland (^Gilbert Turner, 295, Seaf. 3. 90). 



Named after Mr. Chas. O. Waterhouse, of the British 

 Museum. It has the general form of the American M. lati- 

 manus, Say. 



Megachile quinquelineata, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 10 mm. 



Similar to M. Waterhousei, but much smaller, and also 

 differing as follows : — Snow-white abdominal bands narrower 

 and more regular ; apical dorsal segment with black bristles, 

 and w holly without light hair or tomentum ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum with conspicuous long black hairs (as seen 

 from the side), especially long on scutellum ; anterior margin 

 of mesothorax w ith white hair ; hind spurs bright ferrugi- 

 nous ; apical points of anterior and middle tibiae not tipped 

 with red ; antennae black, the flagellum pruinose ; clypeus 

 densely punctured all over; mandibles obsoletely 4-dentate, 

 with a minute spot of glittering oi'ange-fulvous tomentum 



