64 APIDiE. 



marginal cell. Abdomen shining and finely punctured, the base 

 with pale fulvous pubescence ; beneath densely clothed with bright 

 fulvous pubescence. 



Hah. Sierra Leone. 



Two of the cells of this species, constructed of the leaves of a 

 shrub, not the cuttings of leaves, were sent with the insects by 

 James Foxcroft. 



9. Megachile calida. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, with the apex of the abdomen 

 ferruginous. Head as wide as the thorax, subquadrate, finely 

 punctured ; the face with white pubescence ; the flagellum of the 

 antennas, except the first joint, fulvous beneath. The pubescence 

 on the thorax and legs cinereous ; the apical joint of the tarsi 

 ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen 

 oblong and closely punctured ; the two basal segments and the basal 

 half of the third black, the following segments ferruginous, with 

 their pubescence fulvous ; beneath with glitteriug white pubes- 

 cence. 



Male. Rather smaller, but closely resembling the female. The face 

 with white pubescence ; the cheeks black, edged with a white 

 fringe ; thorax as in the female. The two basal segments of the 

 abdomen black, the first with a ferruginous band, the second has 

 the apical half ferruginous as well as the rest of the abdomen ; the 

 apical segment with the margin entire, and with a slight central 

 depression. 



Hah. Queensland. 



10. Megachile ferox. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, with a patch of ferruginous pubes- 

 cence on the penultimate segment of the abdomen. The face with 

 white pubescence ; the flagellum fulvous beneath, with the apical 

 joint compressed and slightly dilated. The pubescence on the 

 sides of the thorax, beneath, and on the legs white ; the anterior 

 tarsi broadly dilated, pale testaceous, and fringed with white 

 pubescence, having two black dots beneath ; the anterior coxae 

 with long stout spines ; wings hyaline, with their apex fuscous ; 

 the intermediate and posterior tarsi and the apical joints of the 

 anterior pair ferruginous. Abdomen oblong; the basal segment 

 fringed with white pubescence, also a little white pubescence on 

 the apical margins of the two following segments laterally, and 

 probably also on the third occasionally ; the margin of the apical 

 segment slightly notched in the middle. 



Hah. Swan Biver. 



