3 g 4 H. Friese, 302 



lucidum ut in femina; abdominis dorsum punctum rara crassaque ut in femina, in segmento 4 fere nulla. 

 L. 13—15 mm. 



9 S des chutes de Samlia (Mocquerys), au Musee de Bruxelles. 



Kongo. 



Megachile dorsata Sm. 

 1853 Megachile dorsata Smith, ?, in: Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 164. 



$. Black, pubescence 011 each side of the face is white, between and above the antennae it is ochraceous 

 and on the margin of the clypeus ferruginous, mandibles and labrum are ciliated with hairs of the same colour. 

 Thorax clothed above with pale fulvous pubescence, beneath it is nearly white; on the tarsi and posterior tibiae 

 it is fulvous and much paler on the other parts of the legs, all the tarsi ferruginous; wings subhyaline, tegulae 

 testaceous, nervures ferruginous; the apical margins have a slight cloud. Abdomen covered with fulvous pubes- 

 cence, which is bright towards the base, becoming much paler towards the apical segment ; the apical segment has 

 a scattered black pubescence, pollenbrush is fulvous. L. 7 lines (= 15 mm). 



Kap. 



Megachile discolor Sm. 



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



$. Black, face, cheeks and mandibles covered with griseous pubescence; vertex, margin of the clypeus 

 and apex of the mandibles have a fulvous pubescence, mandibles and labrum ciliated with long fulvous hairs. 

 Thorax, the disk reddish, strongly punctured and densely clothed with short bright fulvous pubescence, on the 

 sides and beneath it is very sparing and of a dark brown colour; legs dark ferruginous, the pubescence on the 

 anterior and intermediate pairs sooty-black, on the posterior pair it is griseous; wings fusco-hyaline, dark est at 

 the base and along the anterior margin, tegulae rufo-testaceous. Abdomen convex above, thinly covered with 

 a short griseous pubescence, the basal margins of the segments having a band of the same colour; pollenbrush 

 very pale yellow, nearly white. L. 5 lines (= io 1 ^ mm). 



Gambia. 



Megachile eurymera Sm. 



1854 Megachile eurymera Smith, J, in: Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 163. 



?. Black, face densely covered with pale shining hair, having a golden lustre in certain lights; mandibles 

 broad, stout and tridentate at their apex, roughly sculptured and ferruginous in the middle; the pubescence on 

 the disk of the thorax is somewhat ochraceous and cinereous at the sides; legs rufo-piceous, tarsi testaceous, 

 basal Joint of the posterior pair flattened and broadly dilated; the pubescence on the legs is pale fulvous and 

 bright deep fulvous on the tarsi beneath; wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apex. Abdomen subconical, 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence; pollenbrush of a golden yellow, palest towards the base of the abdomen. 

 L. 5V2 lines (= 11V2 mm). 



Kap. 



Wie M. dorsata, welche aber einfachen Metatarsus hat. 



Megachile exesa Vach. 



1903 Megachile exesa Vachal, d?, in: Ann. Soc. ent. Trance, T. LXXII, p. 365. 



?. Nigra, mandibulis, orbitis, temporibus subtus, trunco subtus et postice, segmentum 1, lateribus 

 segmentorum 1—5 pilis sordide lutescente-griseis ; vertice et mesonoto nigro-hispidis ; scopa fulva ad apicem 

 rufescente, in segmento 6 parva, aliquando obscurata. 



