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ochraceous pubescence ; the legs are similarly clothed, that on the 

 tarsi being very bright, the claw-joint rufo-piceous ; wings fuscous, 

 pale at their base. Abdomen closely punctured ; the basal segment 

 with pale pubescence, that on the two apical ones dark ferruginous ; 

 beneath, densely clothed with bright yellow pubescence, that on the 

 two apical segments ferruginous. 



Hah. Zulu. 



3. Megachile cor data. 



Female. Length B| lines. — Black. The face with whitish pubes- 

 cence ; 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 mar- 

 gins of the segments with fasciae of fulvous pubescence ; beneath 

 clothed with fulvous, the apical segment with dark fusco-ferru- 

 ginous pubescence. 



Hah. Natal. 



4. Megachile terminata. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — 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-ochraceous pubescence, beneath it is dense and 

 inclines to cinereous ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous and 

 with bright ferruginous pubescence ; wings hyaline, with a dark 

 fuscous cloud beyond the enclosed cells. Abdomen with the seg- 

 ments one to four clothed with bright fulvous pubescence, the two 

 apical ones with black ; beneath with dense bright fulvous pubes- 

 cence, the apical segment with black. 



Male. Length 6J lines. — 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 j)ubescence ; the apical 

 margins of the segments with fulvous fasciae, the apical margin of 

 the terminal segment denticulate. 



Hah. South Africa, Burghersdorp. 



5. Megachile albescens. 



Female. Length 6| lines. — Black, with the legs and abdomen be- 

 neath ferruginous. The face and cheeks densely covered with 



