162 HYMENOPTERA. 



56. MEGACHILE RUFIPES. B.M. 



Apis rufipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 328. 62. 

 Anthophora rufipes, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 374. 11. 

 Hob. Sierra Leone. 



57. MEGACHILE BARBATA, n. s. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black, the face densely clothed with 

 long pale ochraceous pubescence, which becomes nearly white 

 towards the margin of the clypeus, the cheeks have a dense long 

 white beard ; the thorax beneath and all the legs have a similar 

 white pubescence, on the thorax above it is slightly ochraceous ; 

 wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins, the 

 nervures black ; the anterior tarsi and coxae simple, the femora 

 at their apex beneath rufo-testaceous, all the tarsi beneath ful- 

 vous, the calraria pale testaceous, claws ferruginous, their tips 

 black. Abdomen short, very convex above, the segments have 

 a narrow white fascia, broadest at the sides, more or less inter- 

 rupted on the three basal segments, the apical segment irregu- 

 larly dentate and notched in the middle. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



58. MEGACHILE UNGULATA, n. s. 



Male. Length 4 J lines. Black, head broader than the 

 thorax ; the face densely covered with a bright pale yellow pubes- 

 cence, on the vertex it inclines to fulvous ; on the cheeks, thorax 

 and legs beneath, it is of a very pale bright yellow ; apex of the 

 mandibles ferruginous ; legs dark rufo-testaceous, the anterior 

 femora and tibia in front and their tarsi testaceous, the latter 

 slightly dilated and fringed with white pubescence ; apical joints 

 of the tarsi bright ferruginous, the claw-joints as long as the 

 rest of the tarsi, tips of the claws black ; the posterior tibiae 

 incrassate. Abdomen short, and having at the base some long 

 fulvous pubescence ; the sides of the three basal segments pale 

 rufo-testaceous, which is the colour of the abdomen beneath ; 

 the margins of the three apical segments above narrowly tes- 

 taceous ; towards the apex the pubescence is fuscous, intermixed 

 with fulvous ; the sixth segment notched in the middle. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



59. MEGACHILE APIFORMIS, n. s. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Head and thorax black, on the 

 sides of the face, along the margins of the eyes, the pubescence 

 is short and white, below the insertion of the antennae are some 



