MEGACHILE. 05 



11. Megachile pictiventris. 



Fern ih. Length 6 lines. — Black, the abdomen above with shades 

 of green and violet. The face with white pubescence, that on the 

 vertex black ; the clypeus naked and closely punctured, shining, 

 and with its anterior margin slightly emarginate ; the cheeks with 

 some long white pubescence. Thorax above and the scutellum closely 

 punctured ; the pubescence on the mesothorax short, sparing, and 

 black, that on the metathorax, on the sides and beneath, white ; 

 the legs black above and rufo-piceous beneath ; the posterior tibiae 

 with short glittering white pubescence within, that on the basal 

 joint of the tarsi fulvous within. The abdomen clothed beneath 

 with bright fulvous pubescence. 



Hah. Richmond River. 



12. Megachile rugosa. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, the thorax and basal segment of 

 the abdomen clothed with white pubescence. Head large, rather 

 wider than the thorax ; the face with golden-yellow pubescence : 

 the anterior tarsi simple, the coxae unarmed ; the intermediate 

 tarsi fringed behind with white jmbescence ; wings hyaline and 

 with a slight fuscous cloud at their apical margins, a darker stain 

 in the marginal cell ; the nervures black. The abdomen strongly 

 punctured, and with the apical margins of the second and third 

 segments narrowly smooth and shining, the second with a patch 

 of white pubescence laterally ; the apical margin of the terminal 

 segments emarginate in the middle. 



Hah. Western Australia. 



13. Megachile oblonga. 



Female. Length 4-5 lines. — Black, with a patch of bright fulvous 

 pubescence on the fifth and sixth segments of the abdomen ; the 

 head, thorax, and abdomen nearly equal in width. The head ob- 

 long, and with a little white pubescence on the sides of the face ; 

 the labrum oblong, slightly narrowed at the apex, which is trun- 

 cate and has a minute tooth in the middle of the truncation ; the 

 head and thorax finely and closely punctured ; the wings hyaline, 

 with black nervures and a faint cloud at their apex. Abdomen 

 shining, finely punctured, the margins of the segments depressed ; 

 clothed beneath with white pubescence. 



Hah. Western Australia. 



14. Megachile albobasalis. 



Female. Length 8J lines. — Black, the abdomen clothed with dark 

 brick-red pubescence and having that on the basal segment white ; 



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