356 HYMENOPTERA. 



apex, the joint compressed above; the abdomen fringed with 

 white pubescence, that at the extreme apex fuscous. 



Hab. Northern India. 



55. Xylocopa auripennis. B.M. 

 Xylocopa auripennis, St.Farg. Hym. ii. 181. 10. 



Hah. Bengal; China. 



56. Xylocopa chloroptera. 



Xylocopa chloroptera, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 207- 56 ? . 

 Hab. China. 



57. Xylocopa Sinensis. B.M. 



Female. Length 11 lines. — Black, the head closely and 

 strongly punctured, the margins of the clypeus, and a central 

 line, smooth and shining; the labrum has a tubercle in the 

 centre ; the fiagellum, except the two basal joints, testaceous 

 beneath ; the margin of the vertex, the disk and sides of the 

 thorax and the basal segment of the abdomen densely covered 

 with bright yellow pubescence; the wings rufo-hyaline, their 

 apical margins having a rufo-fuscous cloud, the nervures ferru- 

 ginous; the tibiae and tarsi clothed with bright rufo-fulvous 

 pubescence. Abdomen very closely punctured, subopake, the 

 apical margins of the segments very narrowly rufo-piceous ; the 

 sides of the abdomen fringed with black pubescence, at the 

 extreme apex a little bright ferruginous pubescence. 



Hab. China (Foo-chow-foo). 



68. Xylocopa dissimilis. B.M. 



Xylocopa dissimilis, -S^. Farg. Hym. ii. 180, 9. 

 Xylocopa lunulata, St. Farg^Hym. ii. 184. 14, var. S • 



Hab. China; Madras. M'*^*4> 



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59. Xylocopa pictifrons. B.M. 

 Xylocopa pictifrons, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. ii. 42, 

 Hab. North China. 



60. Xylocopa rufipes. B.M. 

 Xylocopa rufipes, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. ii. 42. 

 Hab. North China. 



