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quite so wide as the apex of the tibiae, three to four times longer than 

 broad. Tegulae black. 



This species looks very like the Indian M. her a. 



Megachile prionsa, sp. nov. 



Black ; closely and strongly punctured, the abdomen less strongly 

 than the thorax ; the lower part of front, face and clypeus thickly 

 covered with longish clear white pubescence ; the pleurae and 

 sternum covered with long white, the mesonotum with shorter, 

 darker coloured hair; the abdominal segments fringed with clear 

 white pubescence, white, slightly tinged with fulvous ; wings hyaline, 

 the apical half tinged with violaceous ; the nervures and stigma 

 black. $ . 



Length 7 mm. 



Cape Colony. Brak Kloof. 



Base of mandibles shining, distinctly punctured ; the rest opaque, 

 finely rugose and irregularly striated, the outer edge keeled; and 

 there is another keel inside this, not reaching to the base ; the apex 

 bidentate, the subapical tooth broader, shorter, and more rounded 

 than the apical. Inner orbits keeled, the space between the keel 

 and the eyes irregularly striated. Apex of clypeus transverse, with 

 an irregular edge. Apical slope of metanotum smooth, almost 

 shining, clearly margined above, the sides broadly rounded, slightly 

 depressed in the middle ; the basal area stoutly striated, narrow in 

 the middle, widened laterally. The apical slope of abdomen smooth, 

 stoutly keeled all round above ; the apical segment with a thick 

 band of pale fulvous pubescence. Some specimens have the wings 

 more violaceous than others ; the second recurrent nervure is almost 

 interstitial; tegulae black. There is a transverse furrow or depression 

 near the base of the second abdominal segment. 



Megachile comhala, sp. nov. 



Black ; the abdomen covered with ferruginous pubescence ; the 

 apex of thorax and base of abdomen in both sexes with longer 

 whitish hair; the hair on the head and thorax in female black; the 

 scopa pale fulvous ; wings fuscous-violaceous, the nervures and 

 stigma black ; the hair on the legs in female blackish, on inner side 

 of tarsi rufous; on the male long, thick and white, rufous on the 

 inner side of tarsi. Mandibles bidentate. ? . 



Length 14 mm. 



Cape Colony. Brak Kloof. 



Mandibles at the base closely rugose, the middle with longish 



