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Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia 



smooth, shining, impunctate, glabrous at the top ; the 

 rest of it obscurely punctured and sparsely covered with 

 white hairs. Pleura? coarsely punctured, and covered 

 witlvlong white hair ; a shining, impunctate, semi-oblique 

 furrow on the lower three-fourths of the mesopleurse at 

 the apex ; the base of the metapleurae finely and closely 

 punctured. Legs thickly covered with white hairs ; those 

 on the under side of the hinder tarsi fulvous ; the cal- 

 caria fulvous ; the claws rufous. Wings clear hyaline ; 

 the nervures and stigma dark fuscous. Abdomen closely 

 punctured ; the base smooth and shining ; the segments 

 fringed with white hairs ; the ventral scopa fulvous. 



Megachile chrysogaster, sp. 110V. 



Nigra; capitc thoraccque alb is ; abdominc subtus longc 

 aureo-hirto ; alis hyalinis. 2. Long. 7 mm. 

 Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head strongly and closely punctured ; the vertex 

 sparsely, the front more thickly covered with long fuscous 

 hairs ; the sides of the clypeus and between the antennae 

 thickly covered with long white hairs ; the mandibles 

 coarsely punctured, their lower side fringed with long 

 golden hairs. Antennae shining, the scape slightly pilose ; 

 the rlagellum glabrous. Mesonotum rather strongly punc- 

 tured ; sparsely covered with long fuscous hairs ; the 

 scutellum with the punctures larger and more widely 

 separated ; its apex fringed with long white hairs (longer 

 than those on the mesonotum). The base of the median 

 segment is coarsely crenulated, the edge being stoutly 

 keeled ; the apex with a sharp abrupt slope, and covered 

 with long white hairs. Pleurae strongly punctured, thickly 

 covered with long white hairs. Abdomen shining ; the 

 basal segment with an abrupt, very slightly concave, 

 slope ; the top at the base with a distinct raised margin, 

 the part behind this being depressed and crenulated. The 



