48 me. smith's catalogue of hymenopteeous insects 



4. Xylocopa verticalis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. p. 195 <? . 

 This species I believe to be the male of X. cestuans. 

 Hab. Singapore, India. 



5. Xylocopa cserulea, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 345. 

 Hab. Singapore, Java, East India, China. 



6. Xylocopa Dejeanii, St. Farg. Hym. ii. p. 209. 

 Hab. Borneo, Java. 



This I have little doubt is the male of X. collaris : I have on several 

 occasions observed that they have been captured at the same time and 

 place. 



7. Xylocopa dissimilis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. p. 180 $ . 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak), China, Madras. 



8. Xylocopa insularis. X. nigra; capite thoraceque pube rufo- 

 fusca tectis ; alis nigro-fuscis iridescentibus, apice acuminatis ; oculis 

 magnis, vertice fere connexis. 



Male. Length 11 lines. Black: the head and thorax densely clothed 

 with short rufo-fulvous pubescence ; the eyes very large and approxi- 

 mating at the vertex ; the anterior legs fringed with long black 

 pubescence behind ; the intermediate and posterior legs with black 

 pubescence, very long on the posterior tarsi ; the disk of the thorax 

 very smooth and shining ; the anterior wings pointed at their apex ; 

 the wings brown, with a violet and coppery iridescence; the pos- 

 terior margins palest ; the transverse nervure which separates the first 

 and second submarginal cells, obliterated. Abdomen punctured ; 

 the basal and lateral margins with a thick fringe of black pubescence, 

 the apical margins of the segments depressed and slightly rufo- 

 piceous. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Gen. Anthophoea, Latr. 



1 . Anthophora zonata. 



Apis zonata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 955. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



2. Anthophora insularis. A. nigra, pube fulva vestita, faciei pube 

 grisea. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Black : the face, cheeks and thorax beneath 

 clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the thorax above and on 

 the abdomen is fulvous ; the fifth segment of the abdomen with a 

 mixture of black hairs ; the legs have a fulvous pubescence outside ; 

 within it is black, it is also black at the apex of the plantse of the 

 posterior legs. The mandibles, labrum, anterior margin of the clypeus 

 and a narrow central longitudinal line, a minute spot above the clypeus, 



