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white pubescence ; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous above, distinctly 

 bo beneath; wings subhyaline, the nervures dark fusco-ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen slightly shining, very finely punctured, and 

 with narrow white pubescent fascia? ; clothed beneath with whitish 

 pubescence, which is margined with black laterally. 



Hab. Ega, Tapajos, and Tunantins. 



40. Megachile ventralis. 



Female. Length 5 J lines. — Black ; the thorax densely clothed with 

 cinereous pubescence, faintly tinged with fulvous above. The 

 vertex with pale fulvous pubescence ; on the sides of the face it is 

 cinereous ; the clypeus strongly punctured, its anterior margin 

 rounded. The wings hyaline, their apical margins clouded; a 

 yellow stain in the marginal cell ; the nervures and tegulaa rufo- 

 testaceous ; the legs obscurely rufo-piceous, with a thin cinereous 

 pubescence, that on the tarsi pale fulvous ; on the basal joint of 

 the posterior pair it is dark fuscous. Abdomen cordate and shining, 

 with the apical segment opaque, very finely punctured ; beneath, the 

 basal segment and a small space in the middle of the second with 

 white pubescence, that on the other parts with black pubescence. 



Hab. Ega. 



41. Megachile rubriventris. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Head and thorax black, abdomen ferru- 

 ginous. The face with a little cinereous pubescence, on the vertex 

 it is black; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax with black 

 pubescence above ; on the metathorax, the sides beneath, and also 

 on the legs beneath it is cinereous ; on the legs above it is black ; 

 the claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous ; wings fulvo-hy aline, the 

 nervures and teguhe ferruginous. Abdomen ferruginous, shining, 

 and with fine shallow punctures ; the pubescence beneath white, 

 except that on the two apical segments, which is black. 



Hab. Santarem. 



42. Megachile fossoris. 



Female. Length 5| lines. — Black, and with the extreme base of 

 the abdomen and the legs ferruginous. The face on each side of 

 the clypeus with a little cinereous pubescence ; the mandibles and 

 the antennae beneath ferruginous; a narrow fringe of fulvous 

 pubescence crossing the vertex between the ocelli; the posterior 

 margin of the vertex with a similar fringe. The thorax above 

 with fulvous pubescence, short and sparing on the disk; on the 

 metathorax, the sides, and beneath it is cinereous ; wings fulvo- 

 hyalinc, the nervures and tegula) ferruginous. The apical margins 

 of the segments of the abdomen and the base of the first segment 



