130 Cameron, Hymenoptera Ovicntalia. 



Megachile Hornei, sp. nov. 



Nigra ; facie huge fulvo-hirta ; pcdibus anticis rufo- 



testaceis, alis fumatis. <5 . Long. 17 mm. 



, Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head large ; below the antennas and the orbits to the 

 ocelli, densely covered with long fulvous hairs. Mandibles 

 black, covered with long fulvous hairs, and with large 

 clearly separated deep punctures. Antennae black ; the 

 scape closely punctured. Thorax black, closely and rather 

 strongly punctured ; the pronotum and prosternum thickly 

 covered with long fulvous hairs ; the rest of the thorax 

 thickly covered with black hairs, that on the mesonotum 

 shorter, on the median segment as long as the fulvous 

 hairs on the pronotum. On the base of the median 

 segment is a dull impunctate area dilated into a sharp 

 point in the middle ; the rest alutaceous, obscurely punc- 

 tured ; the pleurae opaque, obscurely punctured, thickly 

 covered with long black hair. Legs : the anterior femora 

 and tibiae, the base of the middle femora and the lower 

 part of the middle tibiae in front, fulvo-testaceous ; the 

 anterior four tarsi thickly covered with pale fulvous hairs ; 

 the hinder tarsi covered with longer, thicker, and whiter 

 hair. Wings at the apex fuscous, with a faint violaceous 

 tinge, lighter below the stigma and at the base. Abdomen 

 black ; above closely punctured, thickly covered with 

 black hairs, very long at the base and the apex ; the base 

 semicircularly incised; its apex very smooth, shining, and 

 with a bluish tinge ; a narrow furrow extends from the 

 middle to the base ; the apical dorsal segment deeply 

 incised in the middle ; the apex flat ; triangularly incised 

 in the middle. The ventral segments fringed with short 

 fulvous hairs at the apex ; the apical segment depressed, 

 coarsely punctured, covered at the base with long fulvous 

 hair. 



