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punctured, the scutellum densely covered with black hair ; legs with black hair, more 
or less shining pale on femora, coppery red on inner side of anterior tibiae and tarsi, 
and middle tarsi : the femora and tibiae have the tegument more or less dark red : 
hind basitarsi moderately broad ; spurs dark ; abdomen broad and rather short : 
second and third tergites conspicuously polished in middle, the punctures on second 
large and widely scattered ; basal tergite with black hair, but second and third with 
conspicuous bands of pure-white hair ; fourth with a spot of white hair at each side ; 
ventral scopa pure- white, black at extreme apex. 
Cairns. Queensland (A. P. Dodcl). Mr. Hacker had already labelled it as a 
new species. It is a very beautiful and distinct thing, by its bicoloured wings 
resembling M. fabricator Smith. 
Megachile batchelori n. sp. 
Female. Length nearly 15 mm. ; robust, but paralled-sided ; black, including 
mandibles, antennae (flagellum very faintly brownish beneath), tegulae, and legs : 
hair of head and thorax abundant, white, but black hairs intermixed on clypeus 
and front, hair of vertex all black, some admixture of black hairs on mesothorax ; 
eyes brown, inner orbit s parallel ; mandibles very broad, with two large teeth and a 
broad cutting edge ; clypeus broad and rather short, dull and rough, covered with 
hair, but with a broadly arched shining transverse ridge above lower margin ; vertex 
shining, with scattered punctures ; cheeks finely and closely punctured, hairy ; 
mesothorax dull, with many punctures, which however are not very conspicuous ; 
base of metathorax dull : wings with more than basal half clear hyaline, the apical 
part abruptly fuliginous ; first recurrent nervure joining second cubital cell near 
base ; basal nervure falling far short of nervulus , legs with much pale greyish hair, 
rusty black on inner side of hind tarsi, distinctly red on inner side of anterior tibiae 
and tarsi ; hind basitarsi little broadened ; spurs dark, hind spurs unusually short : 
abdomen with first segment densely covered with white hairs ; second and third 
segments with white hair- bands, thin in middle of third ; apical segments with 
short black hair ; second and thud tergites shining : ventral scopa pure white, black 
on last two segments. 
Hughenden (II. II. Batchelor). Another species with bicoloured wings, like 
AI . fabricator. M. fabricator appears to be closely allied, but has the face and front 
with pale ochreous pubescence, and the clypeus with black. 
Megachile wilsoni n. sp. 
Male. Length about 7 mm. ; small and parallel-sided, Heriades- like ; black, 
with the mandibles (except the bidentate apex), scape, tegulae, and legs bright chestnut 
red ; face and front densely covered with long white hair ; eyes pale reddish grey ; 
facial quadrangle much longer than broad, eyes somewhat converging below' ; 
flagellum long and slender, black, not enlarged at end vertex very densely punctured, 
but glistening between the punctures ; hair of thorax white ; mesothorax and 
scutellum very densely punctured (mesothorax coarsely), but glistening between 
the punctures ; area of metathorax basally rugose, apically shining ; wings hyaline, 
a little dusky apically, stigma and nervures dark ; second cubital cell long ; legs 
with thin white hair ; anterior tarsi quite simple : anterior coxae black, not spined : 
abdomen well punctured, with distinct hair-bands, which are pale fulvous in middle, 
white at sides ; on the first segment the band is reduced to large lateral patches, 
on the second it is widely interrupted, on the third thin or narrowly interrupted 
in middle, on the fourth entire ; fifth and sixth segments densely covered with 
