MB. SMITH S CATA.LOaUE OF HYMENOPTEEOUS INSECTS 



fluent punctures ; the face clothed with fulvous pubescence. Thorax : 

 a stout tooth on each side of the scutellum at its base ; wings dark 

 brown with a coppery effulgence, subhyaline at their base ; beneath 

 clothed with short cinereous pubescence. Abdomen : elongate, co- 

 nical ; closely punctured, with the apical and basal margins of the seg- 

 ments smooth ; the apical segment with a tooth on each side at its base 

 and four at its apex ; beneath the margins of the segments fringed 

 with pale pubescence ; the apical margin of the fourth segment notched 

 in the middle j the fifth entirely clothed with pale pubescence. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



Fam. SCOPULIPEDES. 

 Gen. Anthophoea, Latr. 



1. Anthophora zonata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 955. 19. 

 Hab. India, Ceylon, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippine Islands, 

 Hong Kong, Shanghai, Celebes. 



Gren. Xtlocopa, Latr. 



1. Xylocopa fenestrata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 339. 6. S . 

 Hab. India, Celebes. 



2. Xylocopa sestuans, Linn. Syst. Nat. 961. 53. 

 Hab. India, Java, Singapore, Celebes. 



3. Xylocopa Dejeanii, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 209. 59. 

 Hab. Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes. 



4. Xylocopa coUaris, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 189. 26. 

 Hab. India, Sumatra, Malacca, Borneo, Celebes. 



5. Xylocopa nobilis. X. nigra, pube nigra induta; abdominis basi 

 pube flava, apice lateritio. 



Female. Length 11 lines. Black; a narrow line of pale fulvous pu- 

 bescence on the margin of the thorax in front, a patch of the same 

 colour on each side of the metathorax, and the basal segment of the 

 abdomen covered above with similar pubescence ; the apical margin 

 of the third and fourth segments, and the fifth and six entirely, covered 

 with bright brick-red pubescence; the wings black, with coppery 

 iridescence. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Fam. SOCIALES. 



1. Apis zonata. A. nigra, thoracis lateribus dense ochraceo pu- 

 bescentibus; aUs fumatis; abdomine nitido, segmentis secundo 

 tertio quartoque basi niveo pubescentibus. 



Worker. Length 8-8^ lines. Black ; the head and thorax opake, the 

 abdomen shining; the clypeus smooth and shining, the flagellum 

 rufo-piceous beneath; the anterior margin of the labrum narrowly, 



