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Cameron, Hymcnoptera Orientalia. 



pale fulvous hairs ; the hairs on the hinder tibiae much 

 longer, thicker, and of a brighter fulvous tint ; the tarsi 

 rufous, thickly covered with long golden hairs at the base. 

 Wings hyaline, with a faint fuscous tinge ; the costa and 

 nervures blackish ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 shortly before the second transverse cubital nervure ; the 

 second is interstitial. Abdomen above and at the sides 

 thickly covered with long pale fulvous hairs ; the penul- 

 timate segment rufous at the apex; the apical ferruginous, 

 black at the apex, the base closely transversely striated ; 

 the sides, especially towards the apex, broadly furrowed ; 

 abdominal segments black, the base and apex broadly 

 ferruginous ; the segments at the apices thickly fringed 

 with fulvous hairs. 



The S is covered all over with long hoary hairs ; the 

 clypeus, except at the sides and the inner orbits, cream- 

 yellow ; the extreme apex piceous, the mandibles cream 

 coloured; the tips black, ferruginous in front of the black; 

 the labrum black, covered with white hairs ; the ventral 

 segments are coloured as in the 2 ; this being also the 

 case with the legs, which bear long white hairs. 



MEGACHILE SAMSON, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra; thorace abdominisque basi rufp-htrsutts ; alis 

 fusco-violaceis. <S . Long. 25 mm. 

 Hab. Himalayas. 



Head deep velvety black, opaque, coarsely alutaceous, 

 thickly covered with black hairs, which are longest 

 and thickest on the front and at the base of the clypeus, 

 which is short, coloured and haired like the vertex, and 

 projecting in the middle into a stout, large, somewhat 

 triangular thickly-haired tooth ; its apex shining, and 

 smooth at the sides ; the labrum large, as long as the 

 space between the ocelli and the apex of the clypeus, 



