Records of Bees. 2G7 



Megacliile schismatura, sp. n. 



(J. — Lcncith about 9^ mm. 



{Superficially like M. oiwhrychicUs^ but difFeritig as follows : 

 face broader, eyes less converging below ; vertex with a 

 good deal of fuscous hair ; the recurrent nervures joining 

 second s.m. about equally far (a short distance) from base 

 and apex ; keel of sixth abdominal segment presenting a very 

 large circular emargination, the lateral corners of which are 

 sharply pointed, forming much less than right angles ; on 

 each side of the emargination the margin is crenate, but not 

 jagged : sixth segment above tiie keel densely white-pruinose. 

 The pubescence of M. o7\ohrychidis has a faint yellowish tint, 

 Avanting in schismatura. The eyes of scliismatura are dis- 

 tinctly darker and narrower than those of onobrychidis. In 

 the apical emargination of the abdomen, M. fruyalis, Cress., 

 is like schismatura, but the latter has only minute lateral 

 teeth, instead of the prominent ones oifrugalis. 



llah. Mesilla Park, as described under M. onobrychidis. 



Megachile albula, Lovell & Cockerell. 



Described from Maine. 1 find I have a male which I took 

 at Beulah, New Mexico, 8000 ft., July 11. 



JS'oie on Gilbert Turner s Australian Bees. 



I take the opportunity to add a note explaining the localities 

 of Gilbert Turner's bees, described in earlier numbers of this 

 series. I am indebted to Mr. Rowland E. Turner for the 

 following inforn)ation : — " The abbreviations on the labels on 

 the Australian bees are : Seat"., ISeaforth, a locality on the 

 coast 20 miles north of Mackay, Queensland ; Kidg., The 

 Kidges, a small property 1.) miles from Mackay which was 

 held by my brother the late Gilbert Turner and myself in 

 partnership for many years. Hy. is merely short for Hymeno- 

 ptera. All the bees sent by my brother to the Museum 

 were taken at one of the two above places, but as they 

 are not settlements of any size I always use the locality 

 Mackay." {Litt., Dec. 2, 1907.) 



University of Colorado, 



Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 



Jan. 12, 1908. 



