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and a little on middle of face; wings narrower and more pointed 

 than in X. sinensis Smith, and uniformly f uscons ; mesothorax with 

 very much finer punctures than in sinensis; tarsi with a good deal 

 of red hair. 



Soochow, China (N. Gist Gee, 143). 



Superficially very like X. sinensis Smith, but structurally very dis- 

 tinct. Smith's original (1852) description of the male leaves one 

 doubtful, but his later (1871) one is sufficiently convincing, though 

 lacking in detail. The above brief account will make recognition 

 easier. Perez (1901) gives fuller details and especially describes 

 the structure of the hind legs. 



XYLOCOPA SONORINA Smith. 



Buitenzorg, Java, March, 1909 (Bryant and Palmer). One 

 female of this little-known species. 



The middle ocellus is situated in a V-shaped basin; the clypeus 

 has broad smooth swollen borders, and near the apical margin a 

 pair of opaque black spots emitting hairs; labrum trituberculate ; 

 wings only moderately dark, greenish tending toward brassy, cop- 

 pery at apex. This is a true Xylocopa^ not a Mesotrichia. 



CERATINA CONGOENSIS Meunier. 



Male.— Moxmi Coffee, Liberia. April, 1897 (R. P. Currie). 



CERATINA CLADURA, new species. 



Female. — Length about 8 mm. Shining black, with creamy-white 

 markings; abdomen very boardly clavate, narrowed basally. Head 

 rather large, the cream-colored portions being a very broad reversed 

 T covering nearly all of clypeus, supraclypeal band (separated by 

 narrow line from light color of clypeus), broad lateral face-marks 

 (narrowing above, but reaching beyond middle of front), a pair of 

 oblique marks on middle of front, small spots on labrum and base of 

 mandibles, broad bands on cheeks, and a small spot on each side of 

 vertex ; middle of clypeus polished and wholly impunctate ; antennae 

 dark, scape ferruginous at extreme base ; mesothorax dull and rough 

 in front, otherwise very smooth and polished ; light marks of thorax 

 consisting of broad band on prothorax above, tubercles, broad but 

 short bands above tegulae, two very obscure lines on disk of meso- 

 thorax, large patch covering most of anterior part of mesopleura, 

 elongated patch beneath wings, scutellum, postscutellum, and a pair 

 of very large patches on metathorax ; at sides of prothorax is a red- 

 dish patch (perhaps originally yellow) ; area of metathorax black, 

 obscurely transversely wrinkled, and with a rudimentary (basal) 

 keel; tegulae testaceous; wings strongly dusky; stigma very long, 

 dark brown; nervures fuscous, second submarginal cell compara- 



