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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. IV. 
Anthophila. 
Ceratina Bingbami , Cock. 
Firidissima, Bing., Fauna of Brit . India , Hymen , i, 501. 
Lachiwala, near Delira Dnn. May. 
Megachile stirostoma, sp. nov. 
Black, the pubescence, including the pollen brush, and bands on the 
base of the dorsal abdominal segments, white, the upper part of the 
ventral surface with black hairs. Wings hyaline, iridescent, the apex 
from end of the cubital cellules slightly smoky, the nervures black. ? . 
Length 14 mm. 
Debra Dun. 
Head large, slightly wider than the thorax, closely punctured, a 
smooth narrow furrow running from the occiput to the ocelli, clypeus 
above forming a wide triangle depressed and punctured in the centre and 
bordered by flat shining broad keels; below this is a shallow transverse 
depression, followed by a larger deeper one, bordered below by £ smooth 
wide transverse keels, of which the lower is the wider and is dilated 
slightly in the middle. Mandibles longish, covered with longish, inter¬ 
lacing punctures; the lower apical part furrowed, there are £ broad, 
rounded teeth, the inner thinner and widely separated from the apical. 
Puncturation on mesonotum close, and running more or less into trans¬ 
verse striae; there is a narrow, smooth irregular shining line down the 
middle apex of scutellum and post-scutellum fringed with longish black 
hair. Metanotal area opaque, smooth, clearly separated, a shallow 
furrow down the middle; the rest of the metanotum is not so strongly 
punctured as the scutellum. Apex of basal abdominal segment closely, 
regularly punctured, the 2nd and 5th with the apical half more or 
less irregularly punctured, the punctures becoming gradually weaker and 
sparser, the last much more closely, finely and regularly punctured and 
covered with short, stiff black hair; the apical ventral segments thickly 
covered with longer black hair. The base of the 2nd and 3rd segments 
distinctly, the 4th slightly depressed. The base of metatarsus is not 
much more than half the width of the apex of hind tibiae. Front 
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