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3. Xylocopa fuscata. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Fuscous, tlie antennae ferruginous, 

 slightly fuscous towards their apex above ; the fuce on each side 

 of the' clypeus, which is strongly punctured, has a pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; the thorax and legs have a fulvous pubescence, 

 palest on the former beneath, and very bright on the posterior 

 tibifc and tarsi ; the legs ferruginous ; wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures and tegulaj rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the apical 

 margins of the second and three following segments fringed with 

 pale pubescence, interrupted in the middle ; the apex bright 

 fulvous ; beneath rufo-testaceous, the apical segments fringed 

 with ferruginous pubescence. 



Hab. Albania (Yanina). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



4. Xylocopa lanata. B.M. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the clypeus, 

 a triangular shape above it, and the labrum, white ; the antennae 

 ferruginous, the mandibles rufo-testaceous ; the head and thorax 

 have a dense white woolly pubescence, that on the disk of the 

 latter has a yellow^ hue ; the wings hyaUne, having a pale fulvous 

 stain, the nervures pale rufo-testaceous, the tegulse white, having 

 a fen-uginous stain in front ; the legs pale rufo-testaceous, having 

 a pale golden fulvous pubescence. Abdomen dark testaceous, 

 having on the basal segment a pale yellow pubescence, the apical 

 segments clothed with bright fulvous ; the apical margins rufo- 

 testaceous, and having laterally a narrow white marginal fringe ; 

 beneath ferruginous. 



Hab. Tm-key. 



5. Xylocopa cantabrita. B.M. 

 Xylocopa cantabrita, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 193. 35. 



Hab. Spain. 



6. Xylocopa sinuatifrons. 



Xylocopa sinuatifrons, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. ser. 2. 143. 

 (1843). 



Hab. Spain. 



7. Xylocopa hellenica. 



Xylocopa hellenica. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 2. i. 144 (1843). 



Hab. Spain. 



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