xiii, D, 4 Cockerell: Megachilid Bees 131 



luzonicus. Perhaps a distinct species. The Davao male has 

 brown eyes, the Luzon form has them green. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling. Mindanao, Davao {Baker 

 7458). The spelling of the name must be kept as first printed, 

 following the name of the locality as given on Baker's labels, 

 but Maquiling appears to be the oflficial spelling of the name of 

 the mountain. 



Coelioxys dapitanensis Cockerell. 



Coelioxys dapitanensis Cockerell, Entomologist (1915), 109. 



Mindanao, Dapitan (Baker 3152). Palawan, Puerto Prin- 

 cesa (from Baker) . 



Genus DIANTHIDIUM Cockerell 



The species of this genus make nests of resin and pebbles. 



Dianthidium minutissimum (Bingham). 



Dianthidium minutissimum (Bingham) Cockerell, Entomologist 

 (1917), 164. 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa (from Baker). Anthidium java- 

 nicum Friese, from Java, is the same species. Bingham gives 

 a colored figure of this species.^ 



Genus LITHURGUS Berthold 



Lithurgus scabrosus (Smith). 



Lithurgus scabrosus (Smith) Meade-Waldo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (1912), VIII, 10, 463. 



Mindanao, Dapitan and Davao. The British Museum has 

 it from Rarotonga, Celebes, and Amboina. The ventral scopa 

 of the female is long and rather thin, black. This is Baker's 

 No. 3135. 



Genus MEGACHILE Latreille 



These are the leaf -cutting bees; occasionally they are so 

 abundant as to be injurious. The Philippine species are separ- 

 able as follows : 



Key to the Philippine species. 



Females , 1. 



Males 15. 



1. Ventral scopa black 2. 



Ventral scopa paler or red, or only partly black 5. 



2. Clypeus very short and strongly tuberculate in middle; insect very 



large, considerably over 20 millimeters long (subgenus Eumegachile 



Friese) 3. 



Clypeus not thus formed 4. 



'Fasciculi Malayenses, Zoology (1905), 3, PI. A. 



