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Madagascar and Mauritius it is oclireous. The teinule 

 clypeus is funned exactly as in disjuncta, with the same pair 

 of apical tubercles, but the delicate median carina is usually 

 (not always) absent. 



The male has simple anterior tarsi and tibiae ; anterior 

 coxae witli very small spines, reddish at end ; clypeus with a 

 dense white beard, but otherwise bare and shining, with 

 strong punctures ; mes(^thorax with well-separaled punctures ; 

 apex of abdomen obscurely bilobed. The smaller males are 

 not over 10 mm. long, while the larger females are 18. 



Hab, Formosa [Sauter] ; very many specimens. Berlin 

 Museum. 



The type is a female from Chikutoge, May 1909. Other 

 specimens are from Takao, July to October. 



Meyachile takaoensis, sp. n. 



<J . — Length 14 (small examples 12) mm. 

 Black, with abundant pale yellow hair on head, thorax, 

 and legs, and brighter red (orange-fulvous) on abdomen ; 

 vertex and disc of mesothorax with fuscous hair ; den..e 

 hair of face fulvous varying to cream-colour ; head and 

 thorax above dullish, densely punctured ; tegulse very dark 

 brown, finely punctured. AVings subhyaline, apical margin 

 broadly fuscous. Legs black, including tarsi ; anterior tarsi 

 more or less reddish, rather thickened, but essentially simple, 

 with a fringe of hair behind, and the middle tarsi also 

 fringed ; anterior coxae with short but stout black spines. 

 Abdomen covered with red hair ; sixth segment very hairy, 

 projecting, sharp-edged, eraarginate in the middle and 

 variously subdentate, and with a strong median keel ; sub- 

 apically beneath is a pyramidal projection ending in a short 

 spiue, and another spine projecting from its hinder part, close 

 to the apical emargiuation ; stigma ferruginous, nervure.s 

 mostly fuscous. 



? . — Length about 18 mm. 



The abdomen covered with light red hair, the scopa en- 

 tirely orange-fulvous ; appearance of the Afi'ican M. fulva, 

 Smith, but the wings much darker, the apical half fuscous ; 

 mandibles massive, quadrideutate : clypeus short aid broad, 

 very densely punctured, with a small median apical tubercle ; 

 hair of clypeus largely dark fuscous and dark reddish ; 

 flagellura short and thick ; hind basitarsus little broadened, 

 with much I'ed hair on inner side. 



Hab. Takao, -Formosa (Saute?-), Many specimens iu 

 Berlin Museum. 



