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XYLOCOPA BENTONI, new species. 



Male. — Length 18-20 mm. Black, the abdomen with a very ob- 

 scure bluish tint; clypeus, supraclypeal mark, broad lateral marks 

 reaching to level of lateral ocelli (at upper end a little divergent 

 from orbit), transverse mark on labrum, and minute dot on base of 

 mandibles, all ivory color; antennae black, third joint a little longer 

 than following three united ; inner orbits parallel, the front as broad 

 as face; head and thorax with very pale ochreous hair, face with 

 scattered brown hairs, middle of front and region of ocelli with much 

 black or dark fuscous hair; sides of metathorax with some dark hair; 

 legs with brownish-black and pale hair ; anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 fringed with long pale hair behind, but with dark hair in front; 

 middle legs with more black hair, that on tarsi all dark, except some 

 long glistening light hair on outer side above ; hair of hind legs much 

 like that of middle pair, but mainlj^ dark on middle of tibiae pos- 

 teriorly ; hind femora beneath with much branched black hair ; hind 

 femora broad, angulate beneath basally; hind tibiae with inner face 

 flat, apex on outer side with a snout-like projection; tegulae black; 

 wings rather dilute brown, with delicate rosy tints in the apical field ; 

 abdomen with long and loose very pale ochreous hair on first three 

 segments, on the third mixed with black; the remaining segments 

 with very long loose black hair. 



Abottabad, North West Provinces, India, April, 1906 (Frank Ben- 

 ton). Two males. 



This insect looks superficially exactly like the common X. collaris 

 hinghami Cockerell, and has probably been overlooked on this ac- 

 count. It is very distinct in many important characters ; the parallel 

 orbits, shorter labial palpi, much shorter black scape, smaller ocelli, 

 much greater distance between antennae and middle ocellus, smooth 

 practically impunctate tegulae, shorter (triangular rather than cunei- 

 form) second submarginal cell, more sparsely punctured abdomen 

 with long loose hair, and the structure of the hind legs. 



Type.— Cfit. No. 20702, U.S.N.M. 



XYLOCOPA APPENDICULATA Smith. 



Male. — Length about 24 mm., anterior wing 20 mm. Black, the 

 thorax densely covered with canary yellow hair, the first abdominal 

 segment more thinly covered with the same, the rest of the abdomen 

 appearing nearl}'^ bare, with fine black hair, the copious apical fringe 

 brownish-black. Eyes extremely large, the orbits converging above 

 and the large ocelli low down (style of collaris) ; clypeus, broad 

 band-like supraclypeal mark, and spot at base of mandibles, yellow, 

 but labrum and sides of face black ; labrum without prominent tuber- 

 cles ; hair of head mostly black, but yellow on vertex, about mouth, 



