Records of Dees. 360 



ferruginous ; liair of legs pale, ferruginous on inner side of 

 the broad hind tarsi ; spurs very pale reddish ; apical tarsal 

 joints ferruginous : claws simple ; last dorsal abdominal 

 segment straight in profile, with very fine and short ap- 

 pressed ochraceous hair, and some longer hairs ; a few 

 black hairs before the orange band on fifth segment. 



Hub. Guayaquil, Ecuador (Buchwald : Alfkcn coll. 3). 



Resembles -1/. pulchra, Smith, hut differs in the colour of 

 the legs and abdominal bands. 



Megachile pyrrhotricha } sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 12^ mm. 



Robust ; black, with the hind tarsi and small joints of the 

 other tarsi rather obscure red. Wings rather dilute Fuligi- 

 nous; ventral scopa bright fox-red. Head broad ; mandibles 

 (juadrideiitate ; elypeus shining, strongly punctured, with a 

 delicate median raised line, lower margin practically 

 straight; cheeks and sides of face and front with con- 

 spicuous long white hair, vertex with black hair : antennae 

 dark; mesothorax dull in front, but otherwise shining, with 

 scattered punctures of different sizes, none large ; middle of 

 scutellum smooth and shining ; a very little black hair on 

 thorax above, but an erect tuft on tubercles ; margins of 

 mesothorax (including band in scutello-mesothoracic suture), 

 and all of metathorax and pleurae with creamy-white hair ; 

 tegnhce piceous. Legs with pale hair, fox-red on inner side 

 of hind tarsi; spurs very pale reddish ; claws with a sub- 

 basal tooth. Abdomen shining, finely punctured, with a 

 faint greenish tint : first segment above with creamy-white 

 hair, the others with pale fulvous hair-bands, more or less 

 interrupted on the second ; segments between the hands 

 with scanty short black hair ; last dorsal segment straight in 

 profile, with very minute appressed fulvous hairs, and black 

 bristles laterally. 



Hub. Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2 ? [Buchwald : Alfken 

 coll. 2). 



Not unlike M. chrysophila, Ckll., but sculpture of scu- 

 tellum wholly different. 



Megac/tile pcruchruceu, sp. n. 

 ? . — Length about 10 mm. 



Robust; black, including the tarsi, mandibles obscurely 

 reddish; hair of head and thorax above bright ochreous 

 mixed with f USC0U8 ; hair of face (mixed with black on 

 Ann. <1 - -l/"v- A'. Hist. Sn. 8. Vol. xii. l'7 



