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pale-yellow tomentum, more whitish on sixth ; keel of sixth segment obtusely 
bilobed ; margins of segments at sides with the tegument red, but the apical segments 
are not red ; on the venter subapically are two little dark teeth. 
Kiata, Victoria, Dec. 31, 1918 (F. E. Wilson). Named after the collector, 
who is a very keen and able entomologist. In the tables it runs near M. kirbyana 
Ckll. and M. canifrons Sm., but is quite distinct. M. Victoria Ckll. is somewhat 
related, but has black legs. 
Megachile hardy i n. sp. 
Male. Length about 9 mm. ; parallel-sided, rather slender, the end of the 
abdomen curved downward and inward ; black, including mandibles and antennae 
(flagellum very obscurely reddish beneath) ; tegulae dark red ; knees, tibiae, tarsi, 
and anterior femora except a streak above and below, bright chestnut red ; eyes 
dark grey, distinctly converging below, but face broad : mandibles stout, bidentate ; 
clypeus closely and finely punctured, the edge simple ; a tuft of long white hair at 
each side of clypeus . region of antennae with abundant long greyish- white hail*, 
vertex with dark-fuscous hair ; antennae simple at apex ; mesothorax and scutellum 
glistening but very closely punctured ; postscute! lum shining in middle ; thorax 
above with thin fuscous hair, at sides and behind with white ; mesopleura shining ; 
wings dusky hyaline, nervines and stigma dark ; first recurrent nervine joining 
second cubital cell some distance from base ; anterior tibia* broad, the anterior 
face flat and shining ; anterior tarsi modified, the basitarsus with a large red expansion, 
while posteriorly there is a broad white fringe, and on the inner surface an elongate 
oval black spot ; anterior cox;© with well-developed spines, at the base of which 
is a patch of red hair; abdomen dullish, closely and minutely punctured, the tegument 
red at posterior lateral corners of segments ; tegument of fifth segment not red 
except at extreme sides ; first segment with a thin fringe of white hair ; second and 
third each with conspicuous transverse bars or bands of pale-yellow hair laterally ; 
fourth with a pale-yellow apical band, broad and broadly angular in middle, rapidly 
narrowing to a point laterally : fifth segment with the whole disc (but not the sides) 
covered by a dense pale-yellow r or fulvous hair -patch ; sixth segment apically red 
and obtusely bilobed. 
Blackheath, Nov. 23, 1919 {G. H. Hardy). Runs in the tables near M. rufolobata 
Ckll., or rather near M . latericauda Ckll., but is not closely related. There is some 
resemblance to M. eucalypti Ckll., but the anterior legs are quite different. 
The following table will facilitate the separation of the above species : — 
Females . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 
Males . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] (). 
1 . Apical part of abdomen with tegument red ; ventral scopa wiiite . . . . . . 2. 
Apical part of abdomen dorsally with some red or orange hair, but tegument not red . . 3. 
Apical part of abdomen with neither tegument nor hair red . . . . . . . . 7. 
2. Larger ; clypeus with an excavated shining area in apical middle . . . . alani Ckll. 
Smaller ; clypeus without such an area . . . . . . . . . . gilhertiella Ckll. 
3. Hair of face or front bright orange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 
Hair of face and front not at all orange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 
4. Abdomen in lateral profile gradually sloping apically ; scopa white, black only at 
apex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . chrysopyga Sm. 
Abdomen in lateral profile rapidly descending ; scopa with more black . . henrici Ckll. 
