134 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



and tarsi thickly covered with white hairs, which have a 

 fulvous tint on the metatarsus ; the spurs pale testaceous ; 

 the apex of the hinder tibiae piceous on the outer side. 

 Abdomen black ; above closely punctured ; the segments 

 fringed with silvery pubescence ; the scopa pale fulvous ; 

 the basal ventral segment rufous. 



The 6 is similarly coloured to the 2 ; except that the 

 ventral segments are rufous, except the apical one, which 

 is depressed broadly in the middle, and cleft slightly 

 and roundly; on either side are three stout teeth, which 

 become successively, but not much, shorter. On the 

 sternum in front of the fore coxae are two stout project- 

 ing plates, curved on the inner side, straight and slightly 

 oblique on the outer. 



Megachile pulchripes, sp. nov. 



Nigra, longe argenteo-pilosa ; coxis, trochanteribus, fetno- 

 ribits tibiisque p ostitis, rufis; alis hyalinis, stigmate fusco. 2. 

 Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri {Rothney). 



Head coarsely punctured ; the inner orbits thickly 

 covered with white depressed pubescence ; the rest of the 

 head sparsely covered with fuscous hairs ; the labrum 

 bears some long golden hairs ; a straight keel runs from 

 the base of the antennae to the apex of the clypeus, the 

 part on the latter being the thinner ; the mandibles 

 furrowed on the lower side ; the teeth piceous ; the apical 

 two large. Antennae black, shining, smooth. Thorax 

 coarsely punctured ; the scutellum more strongly than the 

 mesonotum ; the scutellum at the sides projecting into 

 triangular teeth at the apex; the rest of the apex rounded, 

 sparsely pilose ; the edge of the pronotum and the base 

 of the scutellum thickly covered with white hairs. The 

 median segment sharply oblique, its sides thickly covered 

 with white woolly hairs. Propleurae finely and closely 



