1896.] IIYMBNOPTEBA OF CEYLON. • 453 



305. Megachile audbns, Smith. 



Meffachile ardens, Smith, Desc. New Spec. ITym. B. M. G7, 19 $ . 

 Pundaloya (Green coll.). 



306. Megachile oeylonica, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 9.) 

 cf . 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 {Oreen coll.). 



This species may be the male of M. 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 Lithuegus, Latreille. 



307. LiTHUBQus ateatus. Smith. 



Liihurgns atratus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. i. 145, 7 ? ; 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 390, 1. 

 Pundaloya {Oreen coll.). 



Genus Ceocisa, Jurine. 



308. Ceocisa scutellaeis, Fabricius. 



Nomada scutellaris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 346, 2. 

 Melecta scutellaris, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 387, 4. 

 Crodsa histrionica, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. 172. 

 Crocisa scutellaris, Lepel. Hym. ii. 453, 7 ? ; Smith, Cat. Hym. 

 Ins. B. M. ii. 276, 2. 



309. Ceocisa kamosa, Lepeletier. 



Crocisa romosa, Lepel. Hym. ii. 451, 5 ^ J ; Smith, Cat. Hym. 

 Ins. B. M. ii. 277, 7 ; "Walk. Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454 ; 

 Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 25.' 



Pundaloya (Green coll.). 



