542 APIDiE. 



posterior tibiao and tarsi with fuscous dark brown pubescence ; 

 wiui^s hyaline or fusco-hyaline with a purple efPiilgence. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Malabar; Ceylon; South Tenasserim ; through 

 the Malayan region to Australia. $ . Length 24-27 ; exp. 45- 

 50 mm. S ' Length 21-23; exp. 45-48 mm. 



The two species, X. cpMuans and X. hnjorum, are so closely 

 allied that I would join them were it not that the distribution 

 of the two forms is not exactly conterminous. In Tenasserim 

 A", bryorum occurs commonly about Tavoy and Mergui, but not to 

 the north. 



951. Xylocopa basalts, Smith, Cat. ii, p. 355, $ S ; ^all. Ton: Cat. 

 X, p. 205. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and somewhat sparsely 

 punctured, the punctures most dense on the cheeks, on the sides of 

 the vertex, and sides of the abdominal segments above, the disc of 

 the mesonotum, base of scutellum, base and apex of 1st abdominal 

 segment and the apices narrowly in the middle of the remaining 

 segments impunctate, smooth and shining ; sides of the face and 

 front to just below the vertex depressed, the margin of the depres- 

 sion sharp, transverse ; a sharp tubercle below the anterior 

 ocellus. 131ack ; the clypeus, the face, and front to tlie margin of 

 the depressed portion covered densely with cinereous white pubes- 

 cence ; the lateral margins of the basal three abdominal segments 

 and the lateral and apical margins of the remaining segments 

 fringed with long pale yellowish-white pubescence ; antennae 

 briglit piceous brown ; the intermediate and posterior tibi® and 

 tarsi with rufo-fuscous pubescence ; wings fuscous with a light 

 purplish lustre, basal half hyaline. 



c? similar ; the pubescence on the clypeus fulvous, a tuft of 

 white pubescence on the tubercles ; the basal joint of the posterior 

 tarsi incrassate, and with a little white pubescence near the apex of 

 the tibiae. 



Eab. Northern India. $ d . Length 15-19 ; exp. 34-36 mm. 



*952. Xylocopa albofasciata, Sich. Novara-JReise, Hym. p. 154, 5 ; 

 Dall. Ton: Cat. x, p. 204. 



" 5 . Head black, punctured, with sparse black pubescence ; 

 antennae beneath fuscous ; mandibles bidentate ; clypeus medially 

 subcarinate ; eyes not convergent at vertex. Thorax black, with 

 black pubescence, deeply but sparsely punctured ; scutellum mar- 

 gined posteriorly, emarginate in the middle, metathorax (median 

 segment) abruptly truncate. Abdomen black, non-pubescent, 

 opaque, but densely and strongly punctured ; base of Ist segment 

 truncate ; segments 2-5 with a dense long fimbria of pubescence 

 on each side ; segments 1-5 with a narrow basal fascia of short 

 white pile. Anal segment and abdomen beneath black, with black 

 pubescence. Legs black, with black pubescence. Wings fuscous, 

 subhyaline, with green and pale coppery and golden lustre ; nervures 

 fuscous. LcngtJi 35 ; wing 26 lum. 



''Hab. Ceylon." 



