3Ö2 H. FRIESE, 280 



Megachile africana Mocs. 



1879 Megachile terminata Smith, o*?, in: Descr. new species Hym., p. 62 [nee Morawitz]. 

 1887 „ africana Mocsäky, in: Termesz. Filzet., Bd. XI, p. 19. 



?. Black. The face with bright whitish pubescence; on the anterior portion of the clypeus, and also 

 above the insertion of the antennae, it is fulvous. Thorax above clothed with short fulvo-ochraeeous pubescence, 

 beneath it is dense and inclines to cinereous ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous and with bright f erruginous 

 pubescence; wings hyaline, with a dark fuscous cloud beyond the enclosed cells. Abdomen with the segments 

 one to four clothed with bright fulvous pubescence, the two apical ones with black; beneath with dense bright 

 fulvous pubescence, the apical segment with black. L. 7 lines (=15 mm). 



S. Black, The face with dense silvery-white pubescence, that on the vertex of the head and disk of 

 the thorax fulvous; wings fulvo -hyaline, the nervures and Stigma ferruginous; the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, 

 the anterior pair of the latter dilated and covered with pale fulvous pubescence, nearly white; beneath are two 

 oblong black spots; the anterior coxae armed with a long blunt spine. Abdomen thinly covered with fulvous 

 pubescence; the apical margins of the segments with fulvous fasciae, the apical margin of the terminal segment 

 denticulate. L. 6Y4 lines (— 13 mm). 



Südafrica, Burghersdorp. 



d 1 ? bei Willowmore durch Dr. H. Brauns im Januar gefangen. 



Megachile ungulata Sm. 



1853 Megachile ungulata Smith, <?, in: Catal. Hym. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 162, n. 58. 

 1853 „ apiformis Smith, 5, ebenda, Vol. I, p. 162 n. 59. 



(J. Black, head broader than the thorax ; the face densely covered with a bright pale yellow pubescence. 

 on the vertex it inclines to fulvous; on the cheeks, thorax and legs beneath it is of a very pale bright yellow; 

 apex of the mandibles ferruginous; legs dark rufo-testaeeous, the latter slightly dilated and fringed with white 

 pubescence; apical joints of the tarsi bright ferruginous, the claw-joints as long as the rest of the tarsi, tips of 

 the claws black ; posterior tibiae incrassate. Abdomen short and having at the base some long fulvous pubes- 

 cence; the sides of the 3 basal segments pale rufo-testaeeous, which is the colour of the abdomen beneath; 

 margins of the 3 apical segments above narrowly testaeeous; towards the apex the pubescence is fuscous, inter- 

 mixed with fulvous, 6. segment notehed in the middle. L. 4Y2 lines (= 9% mm). 



Kap. 



$. Head and thorax black, on the sides of the face, along the margins of the eyes, pubescence is short 

 and white, below the insertion of the antennae are some long ochraeeous hairs, on the vertex the pubescence is 

 fuscous ; mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax above clothed with obscure yellow pubescence, at the sides 

 of the metathorax it is paler and beneath cinereous; legs ferruginous, their pubescence cinereous, that on the 

 tarsi beneath is fulvous; wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at the apical margins. The basal segment of the 

 abdomen rufo-testaeeous, the apical margins of the other segments also rufo-testaeeous, each one much more 

 narrowly so towards the apex; pollenbrush is very pale fulvous. L. 5 lines (= 10Y2 mm). 



Kap. 



Ferner von Algoa-Bai erhalten, Brauns leg. im Februar; von Ikutha (Deutsch-Ostafrika) mehrfach, auch 

 die Zellen, welche wie bei den europäischen Arten in Blattröhren unter Steinen und Baumrinde angelegt waren ; 

 bei Tanga waren diese sogar in einem alten Pfeifenkopf der Neger angelegt (Karasek leg.). 



