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a pale yellow pubescence ; beneath, the pollen-brush is pale 

 yellow in the middle and bright fulvous at the sides. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



94. MEGACHILE RUFIPES, n. s. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Black, the face covered with a yel- 

 lowish white pubescence, becoming fulvous at the insertion of the 

 antennae; mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax very thinly 

 clothed above with fulvous pubescence, on the sides and beneath 

 it is cinereous ; the legs red, the anterior pair have a tooth on 

 their coxa?, and their tarsi dilated, the basal joint becoming gra- 

 dually broader from the base to the apex ; the second and fol- 

 lowing joints very slightly dilated ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, their 

 apical margins slightly fuscous, the nervures pale ferruginous ; 

 towards the apex of the wing they become black. Abdomen, 

 the apical margins of the segments ferruginous, narrowly fringed 

 with fulvous pubescence, the apical segment ferruginous and 

 deeply depressed at the apex, the two apical segments covered 

 with short fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the margins of the seg- 

 ments pale ferruginous, the apical segments have a short, thin, 

 white pubescence. 

 Hab. East Indies. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



95. MEGACHILE IMITATRIX, n. s. 



Female. Length 8 lines. The face, vertex and metathorax 

 clothed w r ith fulvous pubescence, a fringe of the same colour on 

 the anterior femora beneath, that on the cheeks is paler ; the 

 thorax beneath, its sides, and also the metathorax and legs, black ; 

 the abdomen entirely black, pubescent above, very densrh so 

 beneath. 

 Hab. India ? (Coll. W. H. L. Walcott, Esq.) 



96. MEGACHILE GRANDIS. B.M. 

 Megachile grandis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 333. 6. 



Hab. ? 



9/. MEGACHILE LANATA. B.M. 



Apis lanata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 335. 90. 

 Anthophora lanata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 372. 1. 

 Megachile lanata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 342. 15. 

 Hab. India. 



Obs. Fabricius has given for the habitat of this species South 

 America ; one of the most common species from India in every 



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