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it black, the remaining segments of the abdomen arc black, with a wiJe 

 blue stripe sloping slightly upwards on each side ; legs black, all the 

 tibise with a wide blue stripe on the outside ; wings dark purj^lish brown. 

 (2128, Maru.) 



Allied to G. nUiduIa, Fabr., a species common ia Amboina, Australia, 

 &c., but apparently distinct. 



Xylocopa fokbesii, Kirby, loc, cit. 



Long. Corp. 10 lin. 



Male. Thickly clothed above with olive-green pubescence, as in the 

 male of A', aestuans, Linn., or of A', bryorum, Fabr. ; antenna) black above 

 and fulvous beneath, the hairs on the middle of the under surface of the 

 body, especially towards the tip, those on the lower part of the face, and 

 the very long hairs on the tarsi shading into fulvo-ferruginous: wings 

 brownish hyaline, with a slight violet shade, and marked on all the cells 

 along the hind margin with numerous black dots, as in the allied species : 

 proboscis black, probably reddish within and at the base when extended. 

 (1988,Larat.) 



Female. Black, thickly clothed with black hairs, and very thickly and 

 finely punctured, except on the middle of the mcsothorax, which is 

 smooth and shining, and has a short longitudinal furrow in iront; head 

 clothed with bright yellow pubescence, "that on the face thinner and 

 paler; wings with a bright green iridescence, purplish along the veins 

 towards the base; apical half of the antenna pale beneath; proboscis 

 mostly reddish ; under surface of body thickly punctured, but with 

 some bare spaces along the middle line. (1958, Larat; 2019, Maru.) 



Closely allied to X coronata, Smith, from Kaioa; but in the female of 

 that species (which doubtless has a male similar tothatof A'/^^^«^'0 ^ho 

 wings have a bright violet instead of a green iridescence. 



Yespid^. 



PoLisTES EXTKANEUS, Kirby, loc. cit. 



Long. Corp. 5 lin. 



Female. Head and thorax bright chestnut, clypeu^ pentagonal, bright 

 yellow; mandibles with a ye!low mark on each side: antennae dull 

 yellow ; the scape, second joint, and upper part of the third reddish ; 

 prothorax narrowly edged with yellow in front and behind; scutellum 

 with a transverse yellow line ; metathorax edged with yellow on the 

 sides; abdomen with the first joint yellow," with a broad red strjpc, 

 bordered behind with black, extending for two-thirds of its length above, 

 second and third segments blackish brown, the third bordered with 

 yellow behind, the fourth yellow bordered with blackish brown in front 

 and behind, and the fifth and sixth dull reddish; wings brownish 

 hyaline, with reddish-brown nervures, yclbw stigma, and brown lx)rders. 

 (2025, Maru.) 



Closely allied to P. stltjma, Fabr. from India, Ceram, and Celebes. 



SCOLIID^. 



DiKLis LAEATENsis, Kirby, loc. cit. 



Long. Corp. 10] lin. , ,. , .,, 



Female. Black ; sides of thorax and ab.lomcn, and legs clothed with 

 black hair ; face black ; clypeus very finely punctured above, and naoro 

 coarsely on its lower edge, and bordered at the sides and l)elow with 

 yellow pubescence; mandibles pitchy; thorax and aWoraen finely 

 punctured, much more densely than elsewhere on the sides of the abUo- 



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