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M&rGACHILE FUNEBRIS, Radoszkowski. 
Karkloof, January, 1918 (EH. E. Platt); Pinetown, 19th October, 
1916 (H. W. Bell Marley). 
MrEGACHILE FLAVESCENS, Friese. 
Doonside 6th January, 1917 (L. Bevis); Umbilo, 25th February, 
1917 (L. Bevis); Durban, March, 1916 (E. C. Chubb). 
MEGACHILE UMBILOENSIS, sp. nov. 
2. Length about 9 mm. ; black, with white hair, but vertex and 
scutellum with much long dark fuscous hair, and mesothorax with a 
few dark hairs; ventral scopa white on basal half, bright ferruginous 
beyond, but black at end; mandibles quadridentate, the teeth low; 
clypeus minutely rugoso-punctate, with a median smooth band ; eyes 
dark brown; antenne entirely dark; mesothorax and scutellum 
finely and extremely densely punctured, but glistening between the 
punctures; tegule black; wings hyaline, very faintly greyish ; 
nervures and stigma black, the stigma obscurely reddish in middle ; 
legs with white hair, pale yellowish on inner side of tarsi; hind 
basitarsi; moderately broadened ; abdomen with distinct white hair- 
bands, but that on first segment linear and subobsolete ; sixth 
segment with black hair, and no pale tomentum. 
Umbilo, 18th February, 1917 (L. Bevis). Resembles d/. venwstella 
Ckll., but smaller, with dark tegule, and very much more finely 
sculptured clypeus. 
MEGACHILE STELLARUM, sp. nov. 
@. Length 11:5 mm. ; black, with white hair, but that on upper 
part of front, and upper part of sides of thorax, stained with yellow, 
while the vertex, mesothorax and scutellum have dark reddish-fuscous 
hair, long on vertex, short and scanty on mesothorax (which has pale 
hair in front), and not very long on scutellum ; ventral scopa coloured 
as in M. wmbiloensis, except that it is white in middle of fourth 
segment, and black at sides of fifth ; mandibles quadridentate ; sides 
of face with long dense white hair, but clypeus with short thin 
reddish hair, its surface densely and coarsely punctured, without a 
smooth line, but upper and lower margins narrowly smooth ; 
supraclypeal area with a smooth and polished space just above 
clypeus ; antenne black ; vertex coarsely punctured ; mesothorax 
and scutel!um finely and extremely densely punctured, but glistening 
