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71. Megachile alb emarginata Sm. 
1879. Megachile albomarginata $ Smith, Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 66. 
« ç . Length 6—6 Va lines. Black, the thorax with white pubescent 
spots, and the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with 
narrow white pubescent fasciæ. The face with white pubescence, on 
the clypeus and vertex it is black; the cheeks bearded with white 
pubescence. The prothorax, the sides beneath, the legs beneath, an 
ovate spot behind the tegulæ, and two spots at the base of the scutel- 
lum with white pubescence ; wings fusco-hyaline, palest towards their 
base, the nervures black. The abdomen with bright rufo-fulvous 
pubescence, except that on the two apical segments, which is black. 
L. 13—14 mm. 
New Caledonia.)) 
72. Megachile Alecto Sm. 
I860. — Megachile Alecto J Smith, Journ, of Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. IY. 
Suppl, p. 134. 
« cT. — Nigra, clypeo antice pube alba vestito; alis fuscis. L. 6 lines 
(—12Va mm). Black, clothed with black pubescence; anterior margin of 
the clypeus with a yellowish-white pubescence, a tuft of the same 
colour between the antennæ ; pectus has a griseous pubescence. Wings 
dark brown with a violett iridescence. Abdomen; the apex obliquely 
truncate ; the margin of the terminal segment notched in the middle, 
from which a central carina runs to the base of the segment. 
Dory. 
Guérin has described a species in the «Iconogr. d. Bègne Ani¬ 
mal», which is closely allied to the present species; it is from the 
Isles of Madagascar and Bourbon and named M. mystacea .» 
73. Megachile amboinensis Friese c? $. 
1903. — Megachile rufa Ç Friese Zeitsch. f. Hym. u. Dipt. III. p. 349. (nec 276). 
5. Nigra, fusco-hirta, ut M. fusca , sed scopa rufa. — cf ut 
femina, sed fuscus, fuliginoso-hirtus ; facie albido-pilosa, mandibulis 
apice bidentatis; abdominis segmentis 1. et 2. fuliginosis, 3—6. ple¬ 
rumque flavido-hirsutis, 6. medio sinuato, utrinque acutilobo ; pedibus 
fuliginosis, tarsis omnibus leviter dilatatis. — Long. 13—14 mm, lat. 
5 mm, d — 4 mm. 
Ç . Schwarz, schwarzbraun behaart, genau wie M. fusca, aber 
Scopa rot. — L. 13—14 mm. Br. 5 mm. — d. Schwarzbraun, braun 
