ANTHOPHOBA. — XTLOCOPA. 533 



the labruin and front of the face erect and stiff ; legs for the most 

 part with pale ochraceous, and the thorax beneath with white 

 pubescence ; mandibles, clypeus, labrum, and antennae black : 

 wings hyaUne, slightly fusceseent and iridescent towards the apex ; 

 nervures and tegul;e dark brou n. 



(S similar, smaller ; the labrum and clypeus pale yellow ; the 

 pubescence on the head, thorax, legs, and basal two abdominal 

 segments pale ochraceous. 



Var. The pubescence much paler, that on the apical three 

 abdominal segments golden yellow, not red. 



Hah. Sikhim. $. Lemjth 1-4; ex2y. '27 mm. J. Length 12; 

 CA'jj. 22 mm.* 



Genus XYLOCOPA. 



Xvlocopa, Latr. Hist. Nat. Lis. iii, p. 379 (1802). 

 Mesotricha, Weshc. Trews. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 112 (1837). 

 Platynopoda, IVestiv. Nat. Libr., Ins. vii, p. 271 (1840). 



Type, X. violacea, Fabr. 



Mange. Both hemispheres. 



Head transverse, subrotund ; ocelli in a triangle just below the 

 vertex ; eyes larger in the male and more closely approximate at 

 Aertex than in the female ; antennas geniculate, the scape some- 

 times dilated or iucrassate ; the flageilum cylindrical, apical joint 

 obhquely truncate ; mandibles short, stout, grooved exteriorly, the 

 apex with two, sometimes three teeth ; maxillary palpi t 0-jointed, 

 basal three joints thick, long, apical three slender and short, each 

 in succession decreasing in length ; labial palpi 4-jointed, basal 

 joint nearly five times the length of the 2nd joint, apical two 

 minute, inserted in a line with the other joints. Thorax short ; fore 



* The following species described by the late General Radoszkowski in a 

 Polish work I have not been able to identify : — 



" AxTIIOPnORA FADDEr. 



" iS'igra ; cljpeo dense punctato linea elevata longitudinali, labro rugoso ; 

 capita, thorace antice, sub alisalbo-villosis; abdominis srgiuentisquatuor anticis 

 niveo-faseiatis, fasciis omnibus latissinie intcrruplis, pedibus nigro-liirsutis. — 

 Alis fortiter iumatis. Femina. Long. 16 lum. Picbpek" (? Himalayas). 



" Antiiopiioea indica. 



" Nigra ; clypeo, labroque eburneis nigro-maculatis, maudibiilis eburneo- 

 maculatis; abdominis segmeutis 1-5 utrinque niveo-maculatis, pedibus nigro- 

 hirsutis. — Alis fortiter fumatis. Mas. Long. 13 ram. India." 



" A.NTIIOPIIOEA NCDA. 



"Nigra; clypeo stramineo nigro-maculato ; antennis subtus cinnamomeis, 

 labro stramineo-villoso, thorace lutesceuti-villoso ; abdominis segiiientis 1-2 

 nudis, luteo-t'errugineis, omnibus stramineo-fasciatie, pedes ocbracei luteseenti- 

 viilosi. — Alifl subtuecis. Fem. Long. 14 mm. Himalayas." 



Rad. Wiadom. z nauk Frzyrod., Warszawa, ii, 1882, pp. 74-75. 



t The head from the front, the maxilla, and labium are figured in the Intro 

 duction. 



