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Ende von 5 schwarzbraun. Beine schwarz, schwarzbraun behaart ; Cal¬ 
car schwarz, hakenförmig ; Metatarsus 2 3 so breit wie die Tibie. Elügel 
schwarzbraun mit violettem Schimmer. 
Einige j von Key Eilanden durch H. Kühn erhalten bei (Neu- 
Guinea). 
87. Megachile diligens Sm. 
1879. — Megachile diligens cf ? Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XIV. 
p. 684. 
1879. — Megachile diligens cf ? Smith, Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 67. 
1880. — Megachile diligens Blackburn et Kirby, Entom. Magaz. XVII. p. 86. 
(Biologie !) 
« 5 Long. 4Va lines (= 9 1 2 mm). — Black; the pubescence 
on the head and thorax obscure pale fulvous, becoming cinereous on 
the metathorax and on the face anteriorly ; the abdomen with ferruginous 
pubescent fasciæ. The mandibles with four teeth, the two apical ones 
acute, the others blunt ; the cheeks with long cinereous pubescence ; 
the legs with a little short black pubescence above, on the tarsi beneath 
it is reddish brown ; the claws ferruginous, tipped with black ; wings 
subhyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen cordate, and densely clothed 
with bright ferruginous pubescence beneath. 
cf. Bather smaller than the female, but very closely resem¬ 
bling it. Differs in having the clypeus densely covered with very pale 
fulvous pubescence, the anterior tarsi fringed behind w r ith pale pube¬ 
scence, the fifth and sixth segments of the abdomen densely clothed 
above with short ferruginous pubescence, the sixth segment deeply 
emarginate, the exterior angles dentiform. 
Honolulu. 
The Bev. T. Blackburn states that this species is not rare ; it 
forms nests of leaves of a species of Acacia, rolled up into cylindrical 
cells, wTiich are joined one at the end of another to the length of 
several inches, and are placed in crevices of masonry.» 
1880. «Not uncommon. Forming nests of leaver of a species of 
Acacia colled up into cylindrical cells, which are joined one et the and 
of another to the lenght of several inches and are placed in crevices 
of massonry.» 
88. Megachile dubiosa n. sp. cf. 
Durch das dicht gelbrot befűzte Segment 6 auffallend, von M. chry- 
sopyga cf an den einfachen Vordertarsen zu unterscheiden. 
cf. Schwarz, gelbbraun behaart, Kopf und Thorax fein punktirt, 
