1927] 
New West Indian Megachile 
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NEW WEST INDIAN MEGACHILE. 1 
By Theodore B. Mitchell. 
The following new species were found partly in a series of 
Megachile collected in Cuba by Dr. George Salt during the winter 
and spring of 1925, and partly in some unidentified material in 
the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- 
bridge. 
Megachile bahamensis n. sp. 
9 . Head very broad, eyes slightly converging below T , 
pubescence fuscous; supraclypeal plate almost impunctate me- 
dially, with only a few scattered punctures; clypeus coarsely 
and irregularly punctate, rather sparsely so in the center, apical 
margin polished and impunctate, somewhat thickened and 
very slightly incurved; mandibles broad, irregularly and very 
sparsely punctate above, 5-dentate, the two apical teeth ap- 
proximate, and the three inner ones approximate, the second 
and third widely separated and with a cutting edge between 
them which ends abruptly just before the subapical tooth; 
cheeks narrow, shining, finely punctate, carinate on posterior 
margin; vertex flat, shining, with a few larger scattered punc- 
tures interspersed with more numerous smaller ones which are 
more shallow and indistinct; lateral ocelli about equally distant 
from eyes and edge of vertex; front sparsely punctate just below 
ocelli, but closely and finely punctate between antennae; antennae 
blackish above, pale brownish beneath with a slight violet tinge, 
the middle joints slightly longer than broad. 
Thorax entirely bare above, pubescence at sides and behind 
brownish, becoming fuscous below; mesonotum shining, with 
large scattered punctures, almost impunctate medially; scu- 
tellum impunctate medially, with scattered punctures laterally, 
posterior margin broadly triangular; pleura closely and finely 
Contribution from the Department of Zoology and Entomology, North 
Carolina State College, in cooperation with the Entomological Labaratory of 
the Bussey Institution, Harvard University [Bussey Institution No. 271]. 
Published with the approval of the Director of the North Carolina Experiment 
Station as paper number 14 of the Journal Series. 
