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Male : face densely chothed with pale fulvous pubescence io above 
the insertion of the antennæ, the vertes almost bare and very densely 
punctured. Thorax finely and very densely punctured, sparsely clothed 
with pale pubescence. Wings subhyaline. Front tarsi simple. Abdomen 
densely punctured, the first four segments with a narrow entire apical 
band of pale pubescence before the crest; beneath with four segments 
exposed, the second and third with and entire apical band of pale pu¬ 
bescence, the apical margin of the fourth sinuate ; 5th submembranous, 
with a semilunar impressed area, which is notched in the middle of its 
apical margin, and appears to be densely covered with minute asperi¬ 
ties (under the microscope these apparent asperities are seen to con¬ 
sist in reality of peculiar short thick hairs with knobbed apices) ; 
6th band-like and fragile, with a transverse line of remarkable hairs, 
which are flattened and curved, with their apices bent and acu¬ 
minate ; 8 th very delicate, tongue-like, obtuse at the apex ; genital ar¬ 
mature with j the stipites and sagittae of equal longth, the latter con¬ 
nected by membrane to their apex, the former flattened, wedening to¬ 
wards the apex, and there pointed, bent outwards, and set with a few 
estremely short hairs. Calcaria pale. 
Female very like the cf in general appearance. The pubescence in 
cinereous with little or no fulvous tinge, that on the clypeus is sparse 
so that the puncturation is exposed. The first five abdominal segments 
have a band of pale pubescence, beneath the scopa is formed of sil¬ 
very hairs, those on the apical segment black. 
Hab. Several and probably all the islands, especially about towns 
or settlements. Nests frequently in the leaves of coconut and other 
palms when they hawe been rolled up by the larva of a Pyralid.» 
Megachile nivescens Kirby. 
1900. — Megachile nivescens Kirby, Monogr. Christmas Island p. 88. 
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Megachile rotundipennis Kirby. 
1900. — Megachile rotundipennis Kirby, Monogr. Christmas Island p. 87. 
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