Megachile dontiventris. 
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154. Megachile confielta Walk. 
1871. — Megachile conficita Walker, $ List of Hymen, in Egypt. p. 48. 
»i. — Black, thickly clothed with yellowish cinereous hairs; 
antennae dark red beneath. Abdomen with a whitish band on 
the hind border of eaeh segment, tip with six short spines. 
Legs red, femora and tibiae striped with black. Wings eine- 
o 
i eous, broadly blackish along the exterior border, veins and 
Stigma black. — Length of the body 4 lines (== 8 1 / 2 mm lg.).« 
Cairo. (Aegypten). 
155. Megachile dentiventris Sm. 
1878. — Megachile dentiventris Smith, $ Scient. Res. 2<* Yarkand Miss. 
p. 4 n. 8. 
>cJ. — Pallide pubescens ; abdominis apice denticulato; 
tarsis rufis. 
Black; the face densely covered with white pubescence, 
that on the cheeks is also white, but shorter and less dense; 
on the vertex it is pale fulvous, the mandibles stout and biden- 
tate the teeth rufo-piceous the apical one black at the tip. The 
thorax and legs with white pubescence; the anterior femora and 
tibiae in front and all the tarsi bright ferruginous; the anterior 
coxae armed with a stout spine; wings hyaline, the anterior 
pair faintly clouded at their apical margin; the nervures ferruginous, 
the tegulae black. Abdomen; the apical margins of the Seg¬ 
ments fringed with very pale fulvous-white pubescence; that at 
the sides and beneath, is white; the apical segment with 4 teeth 
on its margin. — Long. 5 lines (= 10 l / 2 mm). 
Yarkand im Mai. (Ost-Turkestan). 
156. Megachile despecta Walk. 
1871. — Megachile despecta Walker, d? List, of Hymen, in Egypt. p. 48. 
*3 — Black; head and thorax clothed with whitish 
hairs. Abdomen with a band of testaceous tomentum on the 
hind border of each segment; under side reddish, with bands 
of whitish pubescence, tip with six small spines. Legs red; 
fore femora black beneath. Wings cinereous, broadly bordered 
with blackish; veins black, tawny towards the base, veins tawny. 
Length of the body 3 ! /2—5 lines (== 7 1 /*—IOV 2 mm lg.)« 
Wädy Genneh, Wädy Ferran (Arabia). 
