120 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



rounded in the lower half and middle ; the first is roundly curved. 

 The hair on the legs is short and black ; the base of the fore tarsi 

 is rounded and deeply incised ; the fore coxa? are stoutly toothed. 

 Abdomen black and covered with short black hair; the middle 

 segments are depressed at the base; the apical segment is, at the 

 apex, roundly incised ; its middle on the apical half is depressed, 

 below the base it is roundly raised. 



Megachile ?noera, sp. nov. 



Black ; the four posterior femora red ; the head and thorax 

 covered with long white hair; the abdominal segments narrowly 

 edged with pate fulvous pubescence ; the ventral scope white ; 

 the base of the hinder tarsi densely covered with long fulvous 

 hair; the wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. 



Long : 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Kuching, Sarawak. 



Head closely punctured; the face and clypeus more 

 coarsely than the vertex ; the apex of the clypeus in the middle 

 projecting, smooth and shining; the sides of the face and 

 clypeus thickly covered with white pubescence; the front less 

 thickly covered with long white hair, the vertex more sparsely 

 with shorter back hair. Mandibles closely, rugosely punctured 

 and covered with white pubescence ; towards the apex they are 

 coarsely irregularly striated ; the apical two teeth are of about 

 the same size, are opaque and moderately acutely pointed ; the 

 rest of the outer edge is smooth and shining. Pro- and 

 mesothorax, with the scutellum, closely and uniformly punctured ; 

 the pronotum and base of the meso pleurae above thickly covered 

 with woolly hair ; the mesonotum has a short pubescence ; the 

 median segment is covered with long, soft hair ; its basal area is 

 closely aciculated, the rest punctured, but not strongly or 

 closely ; its middle is deeply furrowed. AVings hyaline ; the 

 first recurrent nervure is received neaier the transverse cubital 

 than is the second. The four hinder femora and the hinder 

 trochanters and coxa3 are bright rufous ; the hair on the basal 

 four joints of the hinder tarsi is larger than usual ; and it becomes 

 gradually shorter towards the fourth joint ; it is bright fulvous ; 

 the hair on the middle tarsi is shorter and paler. Abdomen 

 closely punctured ; the transverse furrows on the basal three 



