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clypeus projecting ; smooth, shining, impunctate, and 

 slightly notched at the apex; mandibles coarsely punc- 

 tured, their lower edges smooth, shining, and impunc- 

 tate, and fringed with long golden hairs. Mesonotum 

 strongly punctured, thickly covered with long fuscous 

 pubescence ; the sides, base, and apex of the tegulse 

 thickly with long white hairs. Base of median segment 

 shining, impunctate ; the rest of it closely punctured, and 

 covered with long white hairs. Femora on the lower 

 side sparsely covered with soft white hairs ; the tibiae 

 more thickly ; the tarsi still more thickly covered with 

 fulvous pubescence, especially the hinder four. Wings 

 clear hyaline, the nervures and stigma black. Abdomen 

 above rather strongly and closely punctured, black ; the 

 segments at the apex densely fringed with white pube- 

 scence ; the transverse furrows on the second and third 

 segments deep, shining, impunctate. Ventral fringe 

 long ; clear white. 



Megachile maligna, sp. 110V. 



Nigra ; femoribus rufis ; abdominis scopa ftdva ; alis 

 hyalinis. $ et c?. Long. 8 — 9 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black, the front and face thickly covered with 

 long pale fulvous hair ; the vertex closely punctured, the 

 hairs much sparser and of a deeper fulvous tint. Man- 

 dibles strongly punctured, thickly covered at the base 

 with long pale fulvous hairs ; the apical two teeth stout ; 

 the part at their base piceous. Antennae entirely black. 

 Thorax coarsely alutaceous, thickly covered with white 

 hairs, which are especially long on the sides and meta- 

 notum, where they are of a paler tint. Median segment 

 alutaceous, its slope rather abrupt. The fore femora 

 black ; the lower side entirely and the upper side at the 

 base above, and the hinder four pairs, rufous; the tibiae 



