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305. M&GACHILE ARDENS, Smith. 
Megachile ardens, Smith, Desc. New Spec. Hym. B. M. 67,192. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
306. MuGACHILE CEYLONICA, sp. noy. (Plate XV. fig. 9.) 
3. L.11 millim. Exp. 18 millim. 
Black, the face, thorax below, and legs with white pubescence, 
the pubescence on the thorax above and the fimbria on the 
abdominal segments ochraceous. Head very broad, closely and 
finely punctured ; mandibles large, black, channelled and coarsely 
punctured in front; ocelli prominent, placed in a curve on the 
vertex ; clypeus covered with thick white pubescence. Thorax 
piceous black, finely and closely punctured, covered with a thin 
ochraceous pubescence ; wings brownish hyaline, darker along their 
costal margins ; legs stout, black, thickly fringed below with long 
white pubescence, claws bifid at the tip. Abdomen black, the 
margins of all but the two apical segments with narrow bands of 
ochraceous pubescence widening somewhat at the sides, the two 
apical segments shining, closely and very finely punctured, the 
extreme apex notched. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
This species may be the male of 1. ardens, Smith, but it differs con- 
siderably in form and in the colour of the pubescence. It resembles 
M. laticeps, Smith, but differs in the colour of the pubescence on 
the head and face, which is white, not golden-yellow. 
Genus Lituvrevs, Latreille. 
307. LirnurGUs aTRATUS, Smith. 
Tithurgus atratus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. i. 145,7 9: 
Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 390, 1. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
Genus Crocisa, Jurine. 
308. CRrocisa scUTELLARIS, Fabricius. 
Nomada scutellaris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 346, 2. 
Melecta scutellaris, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 387, 4. 
Crocisa histrionica, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. 172. 
Crocisa scutellaris, Lepel. Hym. ii. 453, 7 9; Smith, Cat. Hym. 
Ins. B. M. ii. 276, 2. 
309. Crocisa ramosa, Lepeletier. 
Crocisa ramosa, Lepel. Hym. ii. 451, 5 9 ¢; Smith, Cat. Hym. 
Ins. B.M. ii. 277, 7; Walk. Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454 ; 
Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mose. 1863, 25, 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
