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the segments have laterally a narrow fascia of white pubescence ; 

 clothed beneath with fulvous pubescence. 



Hah. Shanghai, Hong Kong. 



This is the Chinese representative of the Megachile disjuncta of 

 Fabricius, from which it differs principally in having fulvous pubes- 

 cence beneath the abdomen ; in M. disjuncta, from India, it is black. 



24. Megachile immilis. 



Female. Length 7J lines. — Black, with sooty-black pubescence on 

 the face, and pale fulvous on the margins of the thorax above. The 

 anterior margin of the clypeus truncate ; mandibles very stout and 

 with two apical teeth. Thorax with the pubescence on the sides and 

 beneath pale ; wings hyaline, but clouded beyond the submarginal 

 cells, the nervures obscurely ferruginous, the tegulee pale testaceous ; 

 the legs rufo-piceous beneath ; the tarsi with fulvous pubescence. 

 Abdomen finely punctured, the margins of the segments depressed ; 

 the basal segment with pale pubescence laterally ; the apical mar- 

 gin of the segments with widely interrupted narrow pale fascia? ; 

 beneath, the basal half is clothed with pale fulvous, and the apical 

 half with black pubescence. 



Male. Smaller, but resembles the female ; it has, however, pale 

 pubescence on the face, the mandibles having four acute teeth, the 

 anterior tarsi simple, the apical segment of the abdomen notched 

 in the middle of its margin. 



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Hah. Shanghai. 



25. Megachile remota. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black ; the general pubescence above pale 

 fulvous, on the sides of the face below the insertion of the an- 

 tennae it is palest ; the clypeus strongly punctured ; the pubescence 

 on the cheeks and thorax beneath whitish. The mesothorax closely 

 and rather strongly punctured above ; the wings hyaline, with a 

 cloud beyond the submarginal cells, the nervures fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous ; the legs with pale pubescence outwardly, the tarsi fulvous 

 within ; the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen with violet and green 

 iridescence above ; a narrow pale fulvous pubescent fascia on the 

 apical margins of all the segments ; clothed beneath with pale ful- 

 vous pubescence, that on the two apical segments is more or less 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Shanghai. 



26. Megachile determinata. 



Female. Length 1\ lines. — Black, the head and thorax above with 



