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wings yellowish towards their base, faintly clouded towards their apex, nervures testaceous; legs have a black 

 pubescence, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, posterior legs slightly so towards their base. Abdomen 

 short, very convex, margins of the Segments rufo-testaceous as well as the basal segments beneath; pollenbrush 

 is of a pale glittering yellow at the base and black towards the apex of the abdomen. L. 5 lines (= 10Y2 mm). 

 Gambia. 



Megachile angulata Sm. 



1853 Megachile angulata Smith, $, in: Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 157. 



1853? „ mandibulata Smith, J, ebenda, p. 160 — vergl. M. mandibulata Sm., p. 365, und M. adeloptera 



SCHLETT., J) P- 361. 



$. Black, face and cheeks covered with snow-white pubescence, mandibles very stout and furnished with 

 four stout teeth. Thorax naked on the disk, which is closely and strongly punctured; sides covered with snow- 

 white pubescence and on each side of the abdomen are 5 angular patches of similarly coloured pubescence; 

 wings hyaline at the base and dark fuscous towards their apical margins, having a violet iridescence ; legs above 

 have a griseous pubescence. Abdomen elongate, rather strongly punctured, each segment having in the middle 

 a transverse depression; beneath, pollenbrush is black, having a bright fulvous line in the centre not reaching 

 the apex. L. 5Y2 lines (= iiY 2 mm). 



Gambia. 



Megachile cordata Sm. 



1879 Megachile cordata Smith, 9, in: Descr. new spec. Hymen., p. 62. 



$. Black. The face with whitish pubescence; from the Insertion of the antennae to the vertex it becomes 

 obscurely fulvous. The thorax thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence above, beneath it is thin and cinereous, 

 as it is also on the tarsi outside, within it is fulvous ; wings hyaline, with their apical margins clouded. Abdomen 

 heart-shaped ; the apical margins of the segments with fasciae of fulvous pubescence; beneath clothed with 

 fulvous, the apical segment with dark fusco-ferruginous pubescence. L. 3% lines (= 8 mm). 



Natal. 



Megachile curtula Gerst. 



1857 Megachile curtula Gerstaecker, 2, in: Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 462. 



1862 „ „ Gerstaecker, ?, in: Peters, Reise n. Mosambique, Zool., Bd. V, p. 458, tab. 29, fig. 14. 



?. Alis subinfuscatis, nigra, opaca, facie lateribus pallide pilosa, thorace griseo-villoso, abdomine ferrugineo- 

 cingulato. L. 5 lin. (= 1 1 mm). 



?. Wie M. centuncularis, aber beträchtlich kürzer und gedrungener, Gesicht längs der Augenränder 

 weißlichgelb, sonst bräunlichgreis behaart, Scheitel fast nackt, spärlich schwarzbraun behaart; Mandibel breit, 

 kräftig, dicht runzlig-punktiert, mit starken Längsleisten, schwarz; Fühler schwärzlich. Thorax dicht und fein 

 körnig-punktiert, oben graugelb, unten mäusegrau behaart; Scutellum und Metathorax gemischt gelblich und 

 schwarz behaart. Abdomen viel feiner und dichter als Thorax punktiert, Vorderteil der einzelnen Segmente 

 rotbraun beschuppt (spärlich), am Hinterrand von gleicher und goldgelber Färbung dicht besetzt, Analsegment 

 aufrecht schwarzbraun behaart; Scopa rostgelb. Flügel leicht gebräunt, am Rande deutlicher, Adern schwarzbraun. 



1 ? von Inhambane (Mossambique). 



Vergl. xanthopyga — venusta. 



