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and scutcUmn sliiuiiij;, with very stronj^ distinct punctures 

 and thin sliort bhick hair ; pale hair-hand in scutcUo- 

 nicsothoracic suture feeble or absent ; postseutelluin M'ith 

 rather lonj; rufo-fuscous hair ; area of mctathorax .sliining ; 

 tul)ercles frinpjcd with dense pale oehrcous hair; jjlenra 

 strongly and closely punctured, and witli very thin j)al(; hair. 

 Le;,'3 ordinary, anteri(n- tarsi simple and cox:e without 

 spines ; claws red with black tips. Abdomen slnn't, the 

 three segments closely and linely punctured, the fourth much 

 sinootlier ; first three with red marginal bands, evanescent 

 in middle, on first reduced to lateral patches, fourth (except 

 part of disc) and fifth covered with red pubescence, with 

 scattered black hairs intermixed, the red is a deep orange- 

 ferruginous ; sixth segment retracted, with red hair at sides, 

 its keel not at all prominent, feebly bilobed at apex ; no 

 apical (subventral) teeth or spines. Spurs of hind tibiai 

 cream-colour. 



Hah. Dapitan, Mindanao {Bakery 3110, 31 14). 



A distinct species, recalling by the colour of the abdomen 

 M. doanei, Ckll., from Tahiti, but very different structurally. 



Mcgachile houkeri, sp. n. 



? . — Length almost 15 mm. 



Robust, black, including mandibles, tarsi, and antcnnrc. 

 Wings hyaline, faintly dusky, with dark fuscous nervures ; 

 jjubescence greyish white, long and black on vertex, on 

 middh; of mesothorax mixed with black, only a very few 

 dark hairs ou scutellum. Abdomen with pale hair on first 

 two segments and basal part of third, but beyond that the 

 hair is coarse, erect, and black, except that segments 3 to 5 

 liave conspicuous entire white hair-bands, and the sixth, 

 except basally, has a fine pale pruinose pubescence; sixth 

 dorsal segment in outline concave, with the )>lack bristles 

 very lai-ge and conspicuous ; ventral seoi)a entirely clear 

 white. iMaudibles broad, ([uadridentate, with long golden 

 hairs arising from beneath the basal half ; white hair of face 

 and front abundant ; clypeus minutely rugoso-punctate, but 

 largely concealed by hair, its lower margin straight and 

 shining ; vertex with small punctures on each side of the 

 ocelli, but more posteriorly with large jjuncturcs ; meso- 

 thorax and scutellum closely i)uneiured, disc of mesothorax 

 more sparsely [junetured, showing the shining surface ; no 

 white lines of hair on mesothorax and sutural band ; b. n. 

 fallmg short of t,-m. ; anterior tarsi wilii a fringe of long 



