124 IIYJMENOPTEKA FROM SARAWAK. 



Meyaclrile taiea, sp. no v. 



Black : the head covered with black, the pleura 1 and 

 metanotum with pale, pubescence ; the abdominal segments 

 banded with ferruginous pubescence ; the scopa fulvous, rufous 

 towards the apex ; the legs covered with fulvous, the metatarsus 

 on the inner side with rufous, pubescence ; wings hyaline, the 

 apex slightly inf uscated, the costa and nervures dark fuscous. 9 . 



Long : 12 mm. 



Hab. Borneo. 



The hair on the upper part of the head is deep black ; below 

 long and white ; on the front and cheeks it is longer and denser 

 than on the face and vertex. The ciypeus is narrowed and 

 rounded above, where it is smooth and impunctate, or only 

 sparsely, and indistinctly punctured ; the lower two-thirds 

 punctured, but not closely or strongly ; there is a narrow, im- 

 punctate band in the centre ; the centre, in the apex, is not 

 quite transverse. The mandibles are broadly, roundly dilated 

 in the middle ; there are two apical teeth ; the apical is the 

 longer ; the subapical is broader and more rounded ; their up- 

 per side is irregularly punctured ; on the inner side is a row of 

 punctures, on the outer, on the apical half, a curved deep 

 furrow ; the basal half on the outer side is strongly punctured, 

 the punctures becoming larger and more elongated towards the 

 middle. Thorax closely and distinctly punctured, the pleurae 

 somewhat more strongly than the mesonotum. Legs black ; 

 the hair on the femora and tibiae is long and pale ; on the tarsi 

 it is dense and rufous ; the anterior calcaria rufous; the outer 

 joint is straight, transverse, and not dilated at the apex; the 

 subapical is curved and surrounded by a hyaline horny pro- 

 cess ; the claws are rufous at the base. 



On the apex of the fore tibia? in the middle is a large, 

 platelike projection, which becomes gradually narrowed towards 

 the apex, is rufous in colour and has the sides raised ; on the 

 outer side of it is a stout tubercle. 



Megachile >She/fordi, sp. nov. 



Nigra, opaca, nigro pilosa ; alis flavohyalinis, apice fumato ; 

 nervis stigma teque fulvis. $ . 



