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hair very dense and bright on tubercles and behind the 

 win"-s ; disc of anterior coxre with black hair ; teuulse black. 

 Wings dark fuliginous, the basal half paler and yellower. 

 Legs black, Avith short fulvous and black hair, that on inner 

 side of tarsi rufo-fu cous ; hind basitarsus not especially 

 broadened. Abdomen of the long and parallel-sided type, 

 with fulvous hair at sides of first segment, and forming in- 

 conspicuous narrow bands, broadly interrupted in middle on 

 the following four; surface shining, punctures on second and 

 third segments very large; ventral scopa bright rufo-fulvous, 

 becoming blackened on fourth segment, and entirely black 

 on fifth and sixth ; abdomen not at all metallic. 



Hab. Fuhosho, Formosa, July 1909 [Sauter). Berlin 

 Museum. 



This looks exactly like a small example of M. doederleinii, 

 Priese, but is readily distinguished by the darker wings, the 

 eves almost parallel (widely diverging below in doederleinii), 

 and the normal (not elevated) lower margin of clypeus. 



The aiitenuae of M. dinura are shorter in proportion than 

 those of M. doederleinii. The structure and sculpture of the 

 abdomen are nearly the same in both. 



Comparison may also be made with M.scidpturalis, Smith, 

 which has much more fulvous hair, and the abdomen with 

 metallic tints. 



Megachile conjuncta, Smith. 



I have a co-type female from F. Smith's collection. The 

 abdomen has strong purple tints, and the ventral scopa, 

 wiiile largely red, is white at the base and black laterally and 

 apically ; by no means "entirely bright fulvous,"' as Bingham 

 has it^ The mandibles are strongly arched near the apex, 

 and the upper part of the clypeus has a longitudinal smooth 

 band. Thus the species, while superficially just like M. dis- 

 juncta, is really very distinct. 



Megachile disjunctiformis, sp. n. 



Like M. disjunct a, but ventral scopa of female creamy 

 white as far as base of fourth segment, black beyond. This 

 is evidently nearer to 31. disjuncta than to the Chinese 

 M. relata, Smith, agreeing Avith disjuncta in sculpture, form, 

 and the colour of the wings (compare Bingham's account of 

 M. relata) ; in relata the ventral scopa is bright fulvous and 

 black, in disjuncta it is all black. The hair at the base of 

 abdomen and adjacent parts of thorax is white, as in a dis- 

 juncta from Deli, Sumatra (L. Martin) ; in disjuncta from 



