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and there produced into an angular point, and the posterior margins of the bands 

 irregularly notched. 



Hah. Binsur, Kumaon, North-west Provinces of India. 



Fam. APIDiE. 



1. Megachile pkoxima. 



Female. Length 6-7 lines. Head, thorax, and base of the abdomen with fulvous 

 pubescence, the segments margined with white. 



Head — the face clothed with fulvous pubescence ; the thorax also with fulvous or 

 fulvo-ferruginous pubescence above; the tegulse ferruginous; the wings subhyaline, 

 with a dark fuscous cloud beyond the marginal cell ; the intermediate and posterior 

 tibise with a fine silvery pilosity outside, and the basal joint of their tarsi with bright 

 short ferruginous pubescence beneath. The basal segment of the abdomen with bright 

 ferruginous pubescence ; the posterior margin of the second with a narrow fringe of the 

 same colour; the border on the third segment is reddish in the middle and white at the 

 sides ; the two following are edged with white ; the apical segment is white on each side ; 

 the underside is clothed with silvery- white hair, with a fringe of black at the sides. 



Male. This sex is coloured like the female, but has more of the red pubescence at 

 the base of the abdomen, its anterior tarsi are simple, and the apical segment of the 

 abdomen has no white at the sides, and its margin is notched in the middle. 



This species very closely resembles the M. lanata of Fabricius, and is difficult to 

 separate by description : the white pubescence on each side of the apical segment of the 

 abdomen distinguishes the female ; the males are alike ; but both sexes of M. proxima 

 are larger than those of M. lanata. The habits of the two species are totally different, 

 as pointed out by Mr. Home. 



Hab, Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



2. C(ELI0XYS ANGULATA. 



Female. Length 5| lines. Jet black, the abdomen with a row of lateral snow-white 

 angulated spots. 



Head and thorax strongly and closely punctured ; the face on each side of the clypeus 

 and the anterior margin of the latter with dense short white pubescence, which also 

 covers the head behind the eyes; a white line of pubescence on each side of the meso- 

 thorax close to the margins of the tegulse, two minute spots of the same colour at the 

 base of the scutellum ; the thorax beneath, as well as the femora, with fine short white 

 pubescence ; the posterior tibise are also clothed outside j a stout tooth on each side of 

 the scutellum ; the posterior margin of the latter rounded. Abdomen shining, finely 

 and sparingly punctured ; a row of minute snow-white scales along the basal margin 

 of the second and following segments, at the lateral margins an angular patch of the 



