Megachile remota. 
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Muri interjacentes foliis Rubi etficiuntur detrites et glutine quodam 
coadunatis. Unaquaeque casula unam sistit larvam cui victum 
e polline florum ad instar massae elaboratum mater provida 
diligenter praeparavit. Quos mores Heriades nostras habet 
communes cum multis speciebus ejusdem familiae, Ccratinibus , 
Osmiis , Megaehilibus etc. 
Apis pusilla Christ, tab. 12 fig. 14 ad Osmias pertinet. 
Mas forte Osmia bicornis .« 
177. Megachile remota Smith. 
1879. — Megachile remota Smith, ■$ Descr. New. Spec. Hymen, p. 69 n. 25 
»$. — Black, the general pubescence above pale fulvous, 
on the sides of the face below the insertion of the antennae it 
is palest; the clypeus strongly punctured; the pubescence on the 
cheeks and thorax beneath whitish. The mesothorax closely 
and ratlier strongly punctured above; the wings hyaline, with a 
doud beyond the submarginal cells, the nervures fusco-ferru- 
ginous.; the legs with pale pubescence outwardly, the tarsi fulvous 
within, the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen with violet and 
green iridescence above, a narrow pale fulvous pubescent fascia 
on the apical margins of all the segments, clothed beneath with 
pale fulvous pubescence, that on the 2 apical segments is more 
or less luscous. — Long. 6 lines (±= 13 mm).« 
Shanghai (China). 
178. Megachile vescifida Sm. 
1878. — Megachile rescindus Smith, $ $ Scient. Res. 2d Yarkand Miss.p.3n.6. 
Pallide pubescens, abdomine subcordato, segmento- 
rum marginibus pallide fulvis, subtus fulvo-villosis. 
Black; the face covered with fulvous pubescence, 
that on the cheeks paler; the mandibles with 3 ferruginous 
bunt teeth. Thorax; the pubescence on the disk short and 
thin, at the sides it is more dense, long and pale fulvous, that 
on the legs is very pale and glittering above; on the basal 
joint of the tarsi beneath it is bright fulvous; the claws of the 
tarsi ferruginous. Wings subhyaline, the nervures fusco-ferru- 
ginous. Abdomen: a little pale fulvous pubescence on the 
apical margin ol the basal segment; on the following segments 
it is lulvous and very dense and bright on the segments beneath. 
— Long. 6 lines (= 127a mm). 
