NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN HYMENOPTERA. 251 



verse bauds of white, the apical segment with black pubescence. 

 Below the abdomen is black finely pitted, with the margins of the 

 segments narrowly testaceous. 



This beautiful little bee I have ventured to name after Miss A. 

 Brooke, to whose kindness I owe many rare and beautiful hymen- 

 optera collected in Kumaon. 



The nearest ally to it is Anthophora fasciata of Fabricius, which, 

 however, has cinereous and not fulvous pubescence. 



24. Xylocapa ^stuans, Linn. 



Apis cestuans, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 961, ?; Fabr. Ent. Syst. 

 II. 323. 



Apis leucothorax, De Geer, Mem. III. 573. pi. 28. f. 7. 



Bombus cestuans, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 351. 



Xylocapa cestuans, St Farg. II. 193, 6,9; Smith, Cat. Hym. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. II. 353. 



Xylocapa verticalis, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. II. 48, £ , nee St. 

 Farg. 



Habitat: India; China; Borneo; Java; Bali Island ; Sumatra ; 

 Celebes ; Aru ; Timor ; Palestine ; Aden. 



Description : " The female is black; the pubescence black except 

 that on the thorax above, which is yellow, and does not extend 

 beneath the wings; the wings black-brown, with bright purple 

 iridescence at the basal portion, beyond which it has a greenish 

 tinge. The male is clothed with yellow pubescence ; on the abdomen 

 it has a greenish or olivaceous tinge ; on the legs it is greenish-yellow, 

 on the intermediate and posterior tarsi it is black, with a mixture of 

 yellow outside ; the abdomen has some black pubescence at the sides 

 towards the apex ; the wings fusco-hyaline, darkest in the marginal 

 cell, with a purple iridescence in certain lights Female, length 

 eight to ten lines; of the male eight to nine lines." 



25. Xylocapa beyorum, Fabr. 



Apis bryorum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 321, <$ . 

 Bombus bryorum, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 348. 

 Xylocapa climidiata, St Farg. Hym. II. 199, 9 . 

 Habitat: Australia. 



Description : " This species very closely resembles X cestuans, in 

 both sexes; the female differs in having the head clothed with 



