HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK, 175 
ith narrow bands only. The hair on the legs is bales on the 
under side of the base of the tarsi fulvous. 
Megachile esora, sp. uov. 
Black; the head, pro-and sides of mesonotum thickly 
covered with rufo-fulvous pubescence, the median segment 
laterally thickly covered with long white hair; the abdominal 
segments with narrow bands of white pubescence; the wings 
almost hyaline to the transverse basal nervure, beyond it fuscous 
violaceous ; the scape white; the apex of clypeus bidentate. 9 
Length 11 mm. 
Hab. Kuching. 
Head rugosely, closely punctured; on the temples the 
punctures are larger and more distinctly punctured. The apex 
of the clypeus in the middle ends in two short, broad shining 
teeth ; the part between them is roundly curved; the front and 
vertex are thickly covered with long rufous hair; the clypeus 
with pale fulvous pubescence, which is only visible when looked 
at laterally or from above. Mandibles strongly punctured on 
the apical half, the punctures are large and clearly separated; the 
base is rugosely punctured; there are only two teeth ; the apical 
is large, the 2nd shorter and broader, more broadly rounded at 
the apex; the inner part forms two shallow curves. Pro- and 
mesothorax closely and strongly punctured and covered with 
rufous pubescence ; the pleurz more sparsely with longer, pale 
hair. The basal area on the median segment is smooth; the 
furrow at the base is crenulated, the rest closely punctured and 
covered with long white hair. The abdominal segments are 
fringed with white hair; the ventral scopa is white; the basal 
three segments are closely punctured all over ; the 4th is smooth 
at the base and more narrowly at the apex, the intermediate 
Space irregularly punctured; the 5th is irregularly puuc- 
tured near the apex which is sparsely covered with long 
black hair; the 6th is thickly covered with short, stiff black 
pubescence. ‘The apical part of the fore wings, from the trans- 
verse basal and the transverse median nervure (the cloud follow- 
ing their curves), dark fuscous-violaceous; the part behind 
clear hyaline; the hind wings are hyaline to shortly beyond 
the middle, the apex fuscous, with a violaceous tint. 
R. A. Soce., No. 39, 1903. 
