XTLOC'OPA. 541 



the middle .interiorly, the sides oblique ; dypeus and front not 

 cariiiate. Black ; the pubescence on the head and face, on the 

 sides of the thorax and beaeath, and on the abdomen black ; on 

 the thorax above it is bright yellow ; wings dark fuscous with a 

 purple effulgence. 



d • Black, covered all over with a dense olive-yellow pubescence, 

 darker or paler according to locality, those from Bikhim, Burma, 

 and Tenasserim being darker than specimens from the Punjab, 

 N.W. Provinces, and Bombay ; posterior tarsi with brown pubes- 

 cence ; wings hyaline. 



Hah. Throughout India, Assam, Tenasserim ; Burma ; Ceylon ; 

 extending to Africa on the west and to the Malayan region on the 

 east. 2. Lenr/th 21-23; erqj. 41-48 mm. c? , Length 18-20; 

 exp. 40-42 mm. 



949. Xylocopa verticalis, L(>2)eL Ilym. ii, p. 195, $ S ; Dall- Ton: 



Cat. X, p. 219. 



2 d • Somewhat like the two sexes respectively in X. rpstuans : 

 the female, however, a more compact insect, with the thorax more 

 globular ; the cheeks, occiput, the thorax above and on the sides, 

 and the basal abdominal segment covered with dense yellow 

 pubescence having a soft velvety appearance ; legs with a sooty- 

 brown jiubescence, tiu'ning to ferruginous on the inside of all the 

 tarsi ; wings fuscous with a purplish effulgence, subhyaline at 

 base. 



c? diifers from X. restuans S only in having the legs covered 

 with a rich reddish-yellow, instead of an olive, pubescence. 



Hah. Barrackpore. $. Length 19-24; exp. 44-48 mm. S 

 slightly smaller. 



950. Xylocopa bryorum *. 



Apis bryorum, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 3S1. 



Xvlocopa brvorum, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 275 ; Dall. 

 ^Torr. Cat'.x,^. 20G. 



$ . Very closely resembling X. cfstuans, but constantly larger, 

 the abdomen more closely punctured, the yellow pubescence of the 

 thorax spreading on to the back of the head and cheeks, and some- 

 times to the basal abdominal segment ; wings variable, but in the 

 majority of specimens lighter in colour. 



S also larger than X. cestuans 6 , the pubescence a darker 

 olive than in that species ; the inside of the intermediate and 



* Smith in Jonr. Linn. Soc. 1804, p. 48, descrihes, from Mysol, Waigiou, &c., 

 a Xylocopa frovidn, the female of wliich apparently differs from the female of 

 X. (Bstuans in having tlie thorax only jiosteriorly covered witli yellow pubes- 

 cence. In the Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 274, Smith adds N. India to the 

 localities from wliich it has been obtained. In the Britisli Mti.seum eolleotion 

 there are, however, only three specimens, all males, of this speeie.s, and all are 

 from the Malayan region. So far as tiiese epecimrns are concerned, I can see 

 no difference between them and the mules of A', bryorum. 



