Megachile serrulata. 
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Abdomen black, with a blue tinge, each segment having a 
transverse arched depression, the 2.-3. segments covered with 
large deep punctures; beneath, the pollen-brush is fulvous towards 
the base and red-brown towards the apex. — Long. 9 lines 
(= 19 mm lg.). North China. (Coli. R. Fortune).« 
Ein fragliches ? in der Coli. Wüs tn ei-Sonderburg von 
Tschifu (N. China). 
181. Megachile serrulata D. T. 
1878. — Megachile serrata Smith, $ Sc. Res. 2 d Yarkand Miss. p. 4 n. 9 
[nec Smith 1853]. 
1896. — Megachile serrulata Dalla Torre, Catal. Hymen. X. p. 449. 
»cJ. — Pallide pubescens, abdomine oblongo, ano inflexo, 
spinuloso. 
Black; the face with pale fulvous pubescence, that on the 
cheeks cinereous, the antennae fulvous beneath. Thorax clothed 
above with pale fulvous pubescence; at the sides, beneath, and 
on the legs it is cinereous; the tarsi ferruginous, with the basal 
joint of the intermediate and posterior pairs, black above; the 
anterior coxae dentate; wings hyaline, the anterior pair slightly 
clouded at the apex, the nervures ferruginous, the tegulae black. 
Abdomen oblong, obtuse at the apex; the 2 basal segments 
with pale fulvous pubescence; the apical margins of the seg¬ 
ments fringed with pale pubescence, the apical segment clothed 
with short pale pubescence, its margin serrated; beneath, the 
apical segment is produced into a large triangulär process, acute 
at its apex. — Long. 5 lines (=10V 2 mm). 
Bei Yarkand, im Mai. (Ost-Turkestan). Wohl sericans var. ? 
182. Megachile sikkimi Rad. 
1882. — Megachile Sikkimi Radoszkowski, $ Wiadom. z nauk. przyrodz 
Warszow. I. p. 79 n. 11. 
1897. — Megachile sikkimi Bingham. $ Fauna of Br. India, Hymen. I.p.479. 
»£. — Nigra; mandibulis 4-dentatis, clypeo-rugoso margine 
recto; palpis maxillaribus longiusculis ( 1 / ü partem maxillae 
aequantibus) sub-villosis; capite, thorace, segmento 1. abdominali 
pedibusque nigro-villosis, segmento 2.—5. rufo-pilosis, scopa 
rufa. Alis fulvescentibus, apice brunescentibus. — Long. 19 mm. 
Sikkim (Nord-Abhang des Himalaja). 
(Beschreibung polnisch). 
Bingham sagt: 
