March, 1904.] ASHMEAD : HymENOPTERA OF PHILIPPINES. 3 



9. Length 6.5 to 7 mm. Black, punctate, the head with a slight eeneous 

 tinge in certain lights, more coarsely and closely punctate, especially on the vertex, 

 marked with yellow as follows : A long stripe on temples back of eyes, two oblique, 

 nearly confluent, spots on the forehead in front of the ocelli, a hat-shaped mark 

 (_■,) on the face, a transverse line above this mark, and a band along the inner 

 orbits, narrowed posteriorly and extending to beyond the insertion of the antennas, 

 yellow ; labrum, a faint spot near middle of the mandibles, the scape, except a black spot 

 above, and the palpi, pale yellow ; the upper margin of the pronotum, the tubercles, 

 the tegulse, two longitudinal lines on the disk of the mesonotum, and a stripe at the 

 sides next the tegulre, yellowish-white ; the scutellum and bands at apex of abdom- 

 inal segments i to 5 are yellow ; the band on the third segment is broadly inter- 

 rupted medially, that on the fourth very slightly interrupted by a slender median 

 black line or at least is incised medially ; the bands on segments 2 to 4 are broadly 

 sinuated from near the middle and broadened towards the lateral margin ; the ventral 

 segments i to 4 are yellow at apex, the last being wholly black ; the front femora, ex- 

 cept a black band at base, the middle and hind femora at apex, and all the tibias ex- 

 cept a stripe on the hind tibije within, and the tarsi, are pale yellowish or yellowish- 

 white. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins dark brown or brown-black ; the second 

 and third cubital cells each receive a recurrent nervure. 



Type. — No. 7692, U. S. National Museum. 



Manila. Described from four specimens received from Father W. 

 A. Stanton. 



Family VIII. XYLOCOPID^. 



14. Xylocopa aestuans Linne. Luzon, Cagan, Alcala. 



15. Xylocopa bryorum Fab. Luzon. 



16. Xylocopa bombiformis Smith. Manila (Father W. A. Stanton). 



17. Xylocopa collaris Lepel. Luzon. 



18. Xylocopa dissimilis Lepel. Manila (Father W. A. Stanton). 



19. Xylocopa ghilianii Grib. 



20. Xylocopa iridipennis Lepel. 



21. Xylocopa leucocephala Rits. 



22. Xylocopa philippinensis Smith. Manila (Father W. A. Stan- 

 ton). Fr. Casto de Elera in his "Catalogo de toda la Fauna Filipinas" 

 records also X. violacea Fabr. , a European species. 



23. Xylocopa sororina Smith. 



24. Xylocopa trifasciata Grib. 



25. Platynopoda latipes Drury. Philippine Islands. 



26. Platynopoda tenuiscapa Westw. Philippine Islands. 



Family IX. MEGACHILID^. 



27. Megachile atrata Smith. 



28. Megachile clotho Smith. Luzon, Cape Eugeno. 



