232 H- Friese, 150 



cf. Black, punctured, punctures fine and distant on the mesothorax, scutellum and down the middle of 

 the abdomen; sides more strongly and closely punctured; wings hyaline at their base, more or less so 

 in different examples; beyond brovvn-black, with a violet iridescence. L. 10 lines (= 21 mm). 



India, Ceylon. 



Der X. hottentotta nahestehende Art, vielleicht nur eine Lokalvarietät davon. Sie unterscheidet sich durch 

 die Größe, besonders durch die Breite ihres Körpers und den hyalinen Basalteil der Flügel, sowie durch den 

 schwarz behaarten Kopf. 



In Afrika kommt sie bei Obock (Nordostafrika) und auf Madagaskar und sehr häufig auf der Insel 

 Reunion vor, wo sie im Januar fliegt. 



Xylocopa hottentotta Sm. 



1S54 Xylocopa hottentotta Smith ?, in: Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., Vol. II, p. 349. 



1854 „ ustulata Smith, <?$, in: Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., Vol. II, p. 351 (Gambia). 



1874 „ hottentotta Smith, J?, in: Tr. Ent. Soo. London, p. 256. 



?. Black, wings brown-black, with a bright steely-blue iridescence, head closely punctured ; flagellum of 

 the antennae nigropiceous beneath, more or less so in different examples. Thorax shining above, punctured, 

 disk smooth, nearly impunctate, having only a few fine scattered punctures; metathorax rounded. Abdomen of 

 the same width as the thorax, not very closely punctured, most sparingly so down the middle. L. 8 — 9V2 lines 

 {= 17 — 20 mm). 



cf. Very closely resembling the ?, but with the antennae usually entirely nigropiceous beneath, in some 

 of the larges examples very obscurely so; varying greatly in this respect; clypeus with silvery -white pubes- 

 cence and the anterior margin of the thorax with similar pubescence more or less bright; in different examples 

 there is sometimes a little white pubescence on each side of the basal margin of the abdomen, segments 6—7 

 are fringed with black pubescence on the apical segment, forming lateral tufts. In some examples there is a 

 little. whitish pubescence on the sides of the thorax beneath the wings. L. 17 — 20 mm. 



Sierra Leone, Angola, Natal, Aden, Gambia (Smith) ; nach Vachal vom Kap, Senegal und Abessinien. 



Mir liegen <?? von Eritrea, Abessinien und Aden vor, auch von Jericho (Jordantal), 14. April 1899, ferner 

 sah ich dS aus Aegypten im Mus. Wien (Natter). 



Xylocopa rufitarsis Lep. 



1841 Xylocopa rufitarsis Lepelbtikr, J, in: Hist. nat. Insect. Hym6u., T. II, p. 191, n. 32. 

 1874 „ „ Smith, J$, in: Trans. Entom. See. London, p. 256, n. 12. 



1898 „ maculosa Vachal, S, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXVII, p. 95. 



„(?. Antennae nigrae, caput nigrum, nigro-villosum, vertice griseo ; thorax niger, griseo-villosus ; abdomen 

 nigrum, nigro-villosum ciliatumque, segmento i. et 2. — 4. lateribus griseo-villosis ; pedes nigri, nigro-villosi, tarsis 

 Omnibus rufo-villosis ; alae subfuscae, aureo micantes, apice violaceo subnitentes. Long. 7 lignes (= 1 6 mm). 



Africa, Caffraria, coli. Dejean." 



1874. This small species is readily distinguished as regards the c^, which is black; vertex has a httle 

 griseous pubescence, thorax is clothed above with similar pubescence; abdomen has a little on the basal margin 

 of the abdomen and the 3 foUowing segments have a little on the apical margins laterally; wings are fusco- 

 hyaline. 



? is totally black, evcnly and rather finely punctured. L. j^j., lines (= 17 mm). 



Cape. 



