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Allied to M. anthracina Sm.=M. fasciculata Sm., 6 cf., 

 Home and Smith (Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. (1872), p. 179). 

 The fore coxae are sharply triangularly produced in front. 



Megachile sycophanta, sp. nov. 

 Nigra ; capite thoraccque longe cinereo-hirtis ; abdomine 

 subtus longe albo-hirto; alis hyalinis. 2. Long. 13 — 14mm. 

 Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head thickly covered with long hairs; fulvous above, 

 cinereous below the antenna?. Clypeus coarsely punc- 

 tured ; a shining, impunctate longitudinal line down the 

 middle ; the teeth on the mandibles blunt, rounded ; the 

 inner side of the mandibles smooth ; the rest irregularly 

 striated and punctured ; the lower side bearing long golden 

 hair. Antenna? black, shining, smooth. Thorax closely 

 and rather strongly punctured ; the mesonotum (but very 

 sparsely in the middle) with long pale fulvous hair ; the 

 scutellum almost impunctate, the post-scutellum fringed 

 with long pale fulvous hairs ; the pleurae and sternum 

 punctured like the mesonotum and covered with long 

 white hairs. Legs black ; the hairs of the tibiae and 

 tarsi on the inner side thick, deep golden ; on the rest 

 of the legs the hairs are longer, sparser, and pale silvery ; 

 the calcaria pale. Wings hyaline, the nervures blackish. 

 Abdomen closely punctured, the basal segments thickly 

 covered with long pale fuscous hairs ; the third and 

 following segments fringed with short silvery hairs, the 

 third and fourth deeply depressed ; the last segment 

 coarsely and closely rugose ; the ventral scopa apparently 

 white, but the colour hidden by reddish pollen. 



The 6 is similarly coloured to the 2 ; there is no 

 spine before the front coxae ; the apical abdominal seg- 

 ment has no spines ; it is broadly and roundly incised ; 

 this being also the case with the fourth, and, to a less 

 extent, with the third segment ; above the apical segment 

 is depressed at the apex. 



