Records of Bees. 37 \. 



The following table will readily separate the above 

 species : — 



Abdomen red pyirhopastra, Ckll. 



Abdomen dark 1. 



1. Ventral scopa red pyrrhotricha, Ckll. 



Ventral scopa not red 2. 



2. Thorax above with hair all black vincta, Vachal. 



Thorax above with hair not all black 3. 



3. First abdominal segment with bright ochreous or 



fulvous hair: clypeus with a median ridge. . perochracea, Ckll. 

 "Without these characters portalis, Ckll. 



Meyachile kas/iyareitsis, sp. n. 



? . — Length 13^ mm. 



Very robust ; black, with ochreous pubescence ; vertex 

 and discs of mesothorax and scutellum with dark chocolate- 

 coloured hair ; head as broad as thorax ; antennae dark ; 

 mandibles with the long cutting-edge very oblique, with four 

 well-defined subequal teeth ; clypeus coarsely and extremely 

 densely punctured, with a shining median line, lower margin 

 straight, faintly trituberculate ; face with abundant pale 

 ochraceous hair ; mesothorax with the sides dexisely rugoso- 

 punctate, but the disc shining, with large well-separated 

 punctures; scutellum densely punctured; no conspicuous 

 hair-bands on thorax ; tegulse piccous, with broad pale 

 rufous margins. Wings hyaline, slightly dusky; b. n. 

 falling short of t -m. Le»s black, with pale hair, ferru- 

 ginous on inner side of tarsi ; hind basitarsi broad : anterior 

 tibiie with a fringe of long hair behind. Abdomen hairy 

 and with narrow, well-defined, entire bands on all the seg- 

 ments except the last; second to fourth segments with 

 ochreous hair covering part before the bauds, but fifth and 

 sixth segments show black hair, and fourth a little black just 

 before the band ; apical segment in profile a little concave, 

 with black and pale erect hair; ventral scopa pale fulvous, 

 white at base, not at all black at apex. 



Hub. Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, Aug, 27, 1893 (IV. L. 

 Abbott). U.S. National Museum. 



Very similar to M. layopoda (L.), but with much less 

 black hair on the apical part of the abdomen, and thicker, 

 more conspicuous abdominal bands. The hind basitarsus is 

 considerably broader in M. layopoda. Judging from the 

 description, .1/. rescinda, Smith, may als;> lie similar, but it 

 is said to have tridentate mandibles, and no dark hair is 

 mentioned on head and thorax above. M. hashgarensis may , 



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