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of the cheeks : wings fuscous, palest at their base ; the anterior and 
intermediate tarsi ferruginous, the latter fuscous above; the anterior 
coxae armed with short acute teeth. Abdomen : beneath, the apical, 
margins of the segments rufo-testaceous ; the 2 apical dorsal segments 
clothed with pale ferruginous pubescence. 
Morty Island.» 
5 von Neu-Britannien (Birara). 
107. Megachile nidulator Sm. 
1864. — Megachile nidulator J Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. VIII. p. 92. n. 4. 
Vergi. Nova Guinea tab. XV. fig. 14. J. 
« J . — Nigra, abdominis basi pube alba, apice ferruginea vestito, 
alis fuscis. — Long. 6 lines (== 12 3 A mm). 
5 . — Black and clothed with black pubescence ; which is short 
and very sparing ; the disk of the thorax shining and punctured ; wings 
dark fuscous ; the base of the abdomen and margin of the scutellum 
fringed with white pubescence, the apical mai gin of the 3. segment of 
the abdomen and 3 following segments covered with short red pubescence ; 
all the segments clothed beneath with pubescence of the same colour. 
New Guinea.» 
Ich erhielt <j>.ç von Misol, Key im März, Gorom, Neu-Guinea, 
Etna Bai und Manokwari im Mai ; Kühn und Koch leg. 
108 . Megachile pictiventris Sm. 
1879. — Megachile pictiventris Ç Smith, Descr. New Spec. Hymen, p. 65. 
« J . Length 6 lines. — Black, the abdomen above whith shades of 
green and violet. The face with white pubescence, that on the vertex black ; 
the clypeus naked and closely punctured, shining, and with its anterior 
margin slightly emarginate ; the cheeks with some long white pubescence. 
Thorax above and the scutellum closely punctured; the pubescence on 
the mesothorax short, sparing, and black, that on the metathorax, on 
the sides and beneath, white ; the legs black above and rufo-piceous 
beneath ; the posterior tibiæ with short glittering white pubescence 
within, that on the basal joint of the tarsi fulvous within. The abdo¬ 
men clothed beneath with bright fulvous pubescence. — L. 13 mm. 
Richmond River.» 
Neu-Guinea : Milne Bai (Mus. Budapest). Ferner von Sydney, sowie 
von Mackay und Cairns in Queensland, Turner leg. 
