Megachile inontonii. 
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Segments of the abdomen with narrow white pubescent fasciae, 
usually more or less abraded. — Long. 47 a lines (= 9 l / 2 mm.) 
White Nile. Aegyptus. 
174. Megachile montonii Gribod. 
1894. -- Megachile montoni Gribodo, $ Bull. soc. entom. Ital. XXVI. 
p. 285 n. 122; Fig. 
Submagna, robusta, subcylindrica sat opaca, nigra, 
capite nigro parce hirto (inter antennas densissime breviter, 
velutino) occipite parce fulvo-ochraceo-hirto, thorace densissime 
breviter obscure fulvo-ochraceo villoso-velutino ; abdominis seg- 
mento 1. sat dense luteo-ochraceo-hirsutulo, segmentis sequen- 
tibus ima basi densissime perbrevissime nigro velutino-puberulis; 
margine postico summo 2. luteo sequentibus nigro breviter 
fimbriatis; pedibus breviter parce luteo-ochraceo hirsutulis, tibiis 
2 anticis, tarsisque posticis intus nigro-hirtis; scopa densa niger- 
rima, in segmentis autem 2 basalibus ochracea; alis modice in- 
fuscatis, violaceo micantibus, basi decoloratis; mandibulis apice 
tridentatis; clypeo transverso, medio tumidiusculo, crasse irre- 
gulariter granoso utrinque sat fortiter impresso, ante marginem 
abrupte recte truncato, margine depresso lineari laevi; labro 
elongato-rectangulo. — Long. 21 mm. 
1 $ von Ngan-Hwei (China). 
175. Megachile odontura Smith. 
1849. — Megachile odontura Smith, $ Zoologist VII. p. LVIII. 
1855. — Megachile odontura Smith, £ Catal. Brit. Hymen. Brit.Mus.I. p,178n.5. 
1876. — Megachile odontura Smith, $ Catal. Brit. Hymen. Brit. Mus. 2 d 
Ed. I. p. 175 n. 5. 
»Megachile pallide-villosa; abdominis apice denticulato, ano 
cornuto. — Long. 4 1 /* lines (= 9 mm). 
— Black; the face densely clothed with bright pale ful- 
vous pubescence, the mandibles tridentate and at their base, 
beneath, a large blunt tooth or tubercle. Thorax clothed with 
fulvous pubescence, palest at the sides and beneath; the femora 
fringed beneath with long pale or whitish pubescence, the poste¬ 
rior tibiae have a similar fringe; the anterior coxae have a blunt 
spine. Abdomen oblong, obtuse at the apex, the two basal 
Segments thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence; on the 
following segment it is short and fuscous and all these have a 
narrow pale marginal fascia, more or less attenuated in the 
middle, the apical margin of the 6. segment denticulate, the 
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