NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF 199 



JNDO-MALAYAN HYMENOPTERA. 



6.— MEGACHILE MINIATA, n. sp., Pi. I, Fig. 6,?. 

 Habitat : Deti, Nort.h-East Sumatra. 

 Female , Length 23 m.m., expanse 38 m.m. 



Male : Unknown. 



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Description. — $. Black with sordid wliite pubescence on the 

 metanotum posteriorly and on the two apical segments of the 

 abdomen above, the pollen-brush rich cinnabar-red. Mandibles broad, 

 longitudinally striated, clypeus abruptly truncated in front, the 

 anterior margin waved and narrowly smooth and shining, the rest of 

 the head densely and finely pitted, the antennse opaque. Thorax 

 broad, densely and finely pitted, the scutellum prominent, the meta- 

 notum fringed posteriorly above and below with sordid white tufted 

 hairs, mixed with fuscous-black ; wings clear hyaline-yellow, slightly 

 iridescent, the apex somewhat broadly but lightly infascated ; legs 

 black, the posterior tarsi with cinnabar-red pubescence on the inside. 

 x\bdomen black, the margins of the segments sparsely pitted and 

 fringed with black pubescence, the two apical segments above clothed 

 with a dense fine sordid white pile, the pollen-brush and a spot on 

 either side of the 2nd segment a rich cinnabar-red. 



Described from eight specimens collected in the North-East of 

 Sumatra and kindly sent to me by Hofrath Dr. L. Martin. This species 

 is closely allied to Megachile luctuosa, Smith, from Singapore, but it is 

 considerably larger, differs in the colour of the pollen-brush, and has no 

 white pubescence on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments of the abdomen. 

 It still more closely resembles Megachile terminalis. Smith, from the 

 Celebes, from which it difi^rs va the colour of the wings and pollen- 

 brush. 



Family POMPILID^, Leach. 

 Priocnemis Group. 



7.~SALIUS NICEVILLEI, n. sp., PL I, Fig. 7, 9. 

 Habitat : Sikkim, Tenasserim. 

 Female : Length 24-30 m.m., expanse 46-52 m.m. 

 Male : Length 23-25 m.m., expanse 40-43 m.m. 

 Description. — 9 . Head, thorax and abdomen dark brownish-red, 

 the two former clothed with a short dense pile, which in certain lio-hts 



