8. Megachile rotundiceps ^HNS.

M. nigra opaca; alis fulvo-hyalinis, nervuris ferrugineis; abdomine subtus fulgido-argentato vestito.

Female. Length 6 lines. Opake-black: very closely and rather finely punctured; the labrum fringed with ferruginous pubescence; the head nearly orbicular. Thorax: the metathorax clothed with pale fulvous pubescence; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and tegulae pale ferruginous. Abdomen with a little fulvous pubescence at the base; beneath, clothed with glittering silvery pubescence.

Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir).