382 H. Friese, 300 



of his species; the specimens, however, are rubbed, and that may account for them not agreeing with the 

 description. 



d\ The male has the face, clypeus, cheeks and oral region densely covered with long white hair ; the front 

 with long soot-coloured, the Vertex with shorter black hair; the fore femora, tibiae and tarsi are rufo-testaceous 

 in front; the fore coxae armed with a stout longish tooth, which is broader and testaceous at the base; the basal 

 Joint of fore tarsi greatly dilated, pale yellow, densely fringed with long clear white hair below; the middle 

 tarsi fringed with longer white hair, the hinder with rufous pubescence on the metatarsus, as in the female. 

 The apex of the last segment is stoutly irregularly serrate ; there are four or f ive teeth on either side, the number 

 and form appear to vary in old examples; the central two are more widely separated than the others. The 

 apical tooth in the male mandibles is longer and sharper pointed than it is in the female ; it is probably abraded 

 in the latter. Tegulae black. 



Appears to come close to M. imitata Sm., described in both sexes, but nothing is said about the apex of 

 the abdomen in the male being denticulate." 



Kapland — Brak Kloof. 



Megachile consattguinea Sm. 



1879 Megachile consanguinea Smith, $, in: Descr. new. spec. Hymen., p. 63. 



?. Black. The face with yellowish-white pubescence; the head and thorax closely punctured; the collar 

 and metathorax with white pubescence; beneath the thorax and on the legs it is black; on the tarsi within it 

 is fulvous; the anterior wings fuscous, with a vi ölet iridescence, the posterior pair hyaline. Abdomen shining, 

 closely and finely punctured, the sides with patches of white pubescence; beneath densely clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence; at the sides and at the apex it is black. L. 7 lines (= 15 mm). 



Natal. 



This species resembles M. lateralis, but has the abdomen shorter and more heart-shaped and clothed with 

 fulvous beneath. 



Megachile crenulata Fox. 

 1896 Megachile crenulata Fox, <$, in: Proc. Ac. Philad., p. 558. 



S. Black; 1. Joint of fore tarsi whitish; head strongly and closely punctured above, more finely so 

 on the front; mandibles longitudinally striato-punctate, tridentate at apex; dorsulum and scutellum strongly, 

 closely and evenly punctured; mesopleurae perhaps a little more strongly punctured; tibiae cribrose externally; 

 fore coxae with a long, obtuse tooth; fore tarsi with the 1. Joint flattened and broadened, its 

 anterior margin sinuated medially; abdomen closely punctured above, beneath more sparsely, the apical margin 

 of all the segments (except the last) strongly depressed and testaceous; last dorsal strongly emarginate and 

 strongly crenulated; at the base of the last ventral on each extreme side is a strong tooth; head in front, 

 dorsulum, middle segment and base of 1. dorsal with long, brownish or fulvous pubescence, 

 which also appears to a certain extent on scutellum, apical segments and the legs, where it is more or less 

 mixed with paler hairs; cheeks, fore tarsi, thorax beneath, 1. dorsal laterally, and the ventrals more sparsely, 

 with long, pale pubescence; the 1. medial and hind tarsal joints have a fringe of this pubescence; 

 apical margins of dorsals 2 — 5 with obscurely fulvous pubescence, which above in the middle 

 becomes paler; wings subhyaline, nervures and stigma black. L. 13 mm. 



Sheikh Husein, September 24, 1894. The only speeimen obtained is somewhat the worse for wear, 

 there by making an aecurate description of the pubescence rather difficult. 



Nordostafrika (Somali). 



