Records of Bees. 3G5 



The apical lialE of tlie mandihles is mainly re<l, and the 

 slender teeth at sides of hase of sixth abdominal sefrment are 

 red. It therefore seems evident that tauruH is at least a valid 

 subspecies. True/w/yee/j/W.v^^ets as far east as the Cancasiis. 

 I iiave not seen tlie female of taurus, but from Nurse's 

 description it would seem that the apical ventral plate is not 

 nearly so long as in polycentris. 



Paraccelioxtjs rxijiventvia nurseij suljsp. n. 



■ ?. — ^landibles bright ferruginous, black at apex; legs 

 red; abdomen entirely red, truncate and emarginute at 

 aj)ex ; vertex thinly hairy. 



Length about 10 mm. 



Deesa, India, i\Iarcli 1900 {Xurse). 



Friese labelled this rnjiventris, Spin., but the typical ru/i- 

 ventris, from Egyj)t, is larger and has black legs. The male 

 of nursei is not known, but it probably has a black abdomen, 

 as in rnjiventris. 



ParacoeUoxijs resembles Liothyrapis in having l)are eyes, 

 but the structure of the abdomen is quite different. The 

 genus is new to India. 



All the new Indian bees described above are represented in 

 the Nurse collection at the British Museum. 



Megachile diodontura , sp, n. 



cJ . — Length about 7'5 mm., anterior wing 7 mm. 



Black, with head almost as large as thorax and short broad 

 abdomen ; mandibles black; antennal joints 4 to 10 chestnut- 

 red beneath, the apical part of 10 blackened ; cly|)eu3 exposed, 

 convex, shining, with scattered strong j)unctures; long black 

 liair at sides of elypeus and below antennae, but hair of face 

 and front mainly cream-colour, with a long beard from lower 

 margin of clypens ; vertex with short, thin, pale hair, and 

 some longer liairs interspersed ; a band of dark hairs across 

 front just above antennre ; vertex dull, very finely rugoso- 

 punctate, the former with a short smooth line on each side ; 

 hair of mesothorax short, thin, pale yellowish, the hind 

 margin (scutello-mesothoracic suture) with a narrow but very 

 distinct pale band; scutellum with stiff black hair; pleura 

 with dull white hair; teguljB ferruginous. Wings dilute 

 orange, with clear ferruginous stigma and nervures, but 

 apically broadly infuscated. L'gs very dark reddish, nearly 

 black, with short pale hair j anterior tarsi simple; anterior 



