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coarsely punctured, but with a polished area on its upper part; 

 sides of face conspicuously tufted with fulvous hair ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum brilliantly polished, strongly but not very closely 

 punctured, scutellum with a shining impunctate area anteriorly; 

 hair of mesothorax pale, short, and scanty; disk of scutellum 

 with fuscous hair, but postscutellum, sides of metathorax, and 

 tubercles with long pale fulvous hair ; pleura with thin brownish 

 white hair ; base of metathorax with a median pit ; wings dusky, 

 stigma and nervures dusky red; legs with thin pale hair, red- 

 dened on inner side of tarsi; hind basitarsus only moderately 

 broad ; abdomen with pale fulvous hair on first segment ; seg- 

 ments 2 to 4 with shaggy white hair bands, weak or interrupted 

 in the middle ; ventral scopa white, black on last two segments. 

 Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling {Baker 7k5k). In Friese's 

 table of Oriental species this runs near M. umbripennis, but it 

 is quite distinct. 



Megachile rufofulva sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, nearly 12 millimeters, rather slender ; black, 

 including mandibles, antennse, and legs; mandibles tridentate, 

 the third tooth very broad; clypeus densely rugose, with a T- 

 shaped polished shining area, the transverse part of which 

 is partly supraclypeal ; vertex closely punctured ; cheeks with 

 white hair ; clypeus with black hair, but on each side of it there 

 is white; front with mixed black and white, vertex with black 

 hair ; mesothorax and scutellum shining but closely punctured, 

 with short black hair on disk, but grayish white on side of meso- 

 thorax and a line of white in scutello-mesothoracic suture ; pleura 

 and tubercles with white hair, but that on postscutellum and me- 

 tathorax creamy or suffused with fulvous ; tegulse small, dark 

 brown ; wings dusky translucent ; hind basitarsi very broad, 

 with red hair on inner side; anteriorly the hind tibiae and tarsi 

 have stiff glittering white hair, forming a fringe ; abdomen finely 

 roughened, the hind margins of the segments with fulvous hair 

 bands, on fourth and fifth segments the fulvous hair covering 

 over half the surface, sixth with fine, appressed, pale fulvous 

 hair ; ventral scopa bright ferruginous, cream-colored at extreme 

 base. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga (from Baker). Allied to the Bornean 

 M. tarea Cameron, but distinct; our species has only a very small 

 red projection at apex of anterior tibiae, and the legs are not 

 covered with fulvous hair. 



Megachile chlorura sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 13 millimeters; black, including 



