Hecorch of Bees. 365 



with creamy-wliite hair ; anterior tarsi simple and anterior 

 coxse without spines ; claws bifid. Abdomen glistening, 

 short and broad, tirst two segments with pale hair ; segments 

 3 to 5 with bands of pale liair, but in front of these the hair 

 is brown-black ; appressed pale hair at base of fifth ; sixth 

 segment retracted, with thin, erect, inconspicuous hair, 

 duUish, with minute sculpture, and with a strong depression 

 above the keel, which is shallowly emarginate but not dentate. 



Madeira {Wollaston). Oxford University Museum. 



As E. Saunders remarked, it seems to be nearest to M. versi- 



Megachile xylocopoides^ Smith. 

 Buena Vista, Florida [Chas. Mosier). U.S. Nat. Museum. 



Megachile hceiiiatopus, n. n. 



Lithurgus ruf-pes, Smith, Cat. Hym, Brit. Mas. i. (1853) p. 145. Not 

 Meyachile rtifipes (Fabricius). 



I examined the type, from Port Natal, in the Biitish 

 ]\Iusium. 



Mandibles mainly red ; clypeus strongly transversely 

 dejiiessed above margin; tegulse bright ferruginous; white 

 pubescence in scutello-mesothoracic suture, and spots behind 

 tegulpe ; legs bright red, tar.«i darkened ; second abdominal 

 segment metallic green dorsally ; vential scopa wliite, black 

 on last segment and part of penultimate ; abdomen short and 

 broad ; marginal cell and apex of wing fuliginous. ? . 



Lithurgus Ussopoda (Cameron). 



Megachile Ussopoda, Cameron, 1908, is a Lithurgus. 



Tubercle on face hardly indicated ; a robust species, with 

 very robust hind femora ; hind basitarsi broad at end, the 

 broad part exposed and shining. 



Length about 11 mm. 



British Museum. 



Lithurgus nigricans (Cameron). 



Megachile i.igricans, Cameron, 1898, from Ceylon, is a male 

 Lithurgus. 1 examined the t\pe in liothney collection at 

 Oxford. 



Length 11 mm. 



