xiii, D, 4 Cockerell: Megachilid Bees 135 



thorax above with thin, short black hair, sides of metathorax 

 with long and abundant cream-colored hair, tubercles fringed 

 with light tomentum, prothorax and lower part of pleura with 

 creamy white hair; tegulae black; wings dusky reddish, apical 

 margin darker; nervures and stigma piceous; legs stout, with 

 pale hair, red on inner side of tarsi; hind basitarsi greatly 

 broadened, longer than the remaining joints together; spurs 

 ferruginous; abdomen finely punctured, with distinct green and 

 purplish tints; no hair bands, but segments 1 to 4 with white 

 fringes at sides; fifth segment dull and granular, with thin, 

 short black hair. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling (Baker). A very fine 

 species, the smooth shining area on the face resembling the 

 Bornean M. shelf ordi Cameron, but that has a black scopa. 



Megachile ocellifera sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 10 millimeters; black, with the 

 greater part of middle and hind coxse and femora, large patch 

 on hind tibiae posteriorly, and base of abdominal venter all 

 bright ferruginous; ventral scopa pale yellowish, black on last 

 segment; clypeus densely and coarsely punctured; sides of face 

 with conspicuous white hair; head and thorax above with short 

 black hair ; ocelli extremely large, especially the lateral ones ; 

 mesothorax strongly and quite densely punctured; pleura with 

 thin pale hair; tegulae black; wings dusky translucent; hind 

 basitarsi broadened; abdomen with five linear white hair 

 bands; disks of the segments conspicuously, transversely 

 sulcate. 



Mindanao, Davao (from Baker). In all respects very close 

 indeed to M. tarsatula, but easily separated by the immense 

 ocelli, which suggest that it is a nocturnal species. 



Megachile tarsatula Cockerell. 



Megachile tarsatula Cockerell, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1915), VIII, 

 15, 530; Entomologist (1916), 159. 



Negros, Cuernos Mountains (type locality). Mindanao, 

 Dapitan and Davao (from Baker). PALAWAN, Puerto Princesa 

 (from Baker) . 



Megachile metallescens sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 12.5 millimeters; black, including the 

 mandibles, legs, and antennse; but the tegulae are bright fer- 

 ruginous, while the shining dorsal surface of the abdomen has 

 strong blue and coppery tints; mandibles with four subequal 

 teeth; eyes reddish; cheeks angulate behind; clypeus rough and 



