IQ2I.] C. Dover : Fauna of Barkitda I. 389 



Megachile coelioxsidcs Bing. 



189S. MegacJiile coelio.\sides Bing., Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 XII, p. 126, 



Barkuda, i ex., 24-iv-2o. {Dover). 



Represented in the Z.S.I, collection from Deesa and Quetta. 



Ceratina viridissima Guer., p. 501. 



Barkuda, 9 ex., 2i-vii-i4 (Chilka Survey); 16 and i7-viii-20 

 (Dover) ; ix-20 (Annandalc). 



Found throughout our limits. The species was abundant in 

 August, 1920. 



Coelioxys ? fuscipennis Smith, p. 511. 



Barkuda, 2 ex., i7-vii-i4 (Chilka Survey) ; iS-ix-'ig (Brimetti). 



Represented in the collection of the Z.S.I, from the Kangra 

 vallej', Dehra Dun, Surat in the Bombay Pres., Calcutta and 

 Bangalore. In the older of the two specimens from Barkuda the 

 snow-white pubescence on the front and clvpeus, and the transverse 

 bands on the abdomen both dorsally and ventrally are wanting. 



Coelioxys capitatus Smith, p. 512. 



Barkuda, 2 ex., iv-20 (Annandale and Dover). 

 Bangalore and Ranchi, represented by specimen in the Z.S.I, 

 (collection, may be added to the localities given by Bingham. 



Xylocopa tenuiscapa Westw., p. 537. 



Barkuda, 3 ex., 25-vii-4-viii-i9 (Annandale) ; iS-ix-ig (Bru- 

 ncUi). 



Represented in the Z.S.I, collection from Bangaloie, Mur- 

 shidabad, Calcutta, Peradeniya in Ceylon and Tindharia. Occa- 

 sionally seen in 1920. 



It is rather difficult to separate the females of L. tenuiscapa 

 from those of A', latipes on Bingham's descriptions alone. Smith's 

 monograph on Xylocopa (Traits. EvJ. Soc. 1874), Perez [Act. Soc. 

 Linn. Bordeaux LVI,Ser. 6, VI, p. 50 (1901)] andMaidl [Ann. Nat. 

 Hofnius. Wien. XXVI,. p. 294 (1912)] should also be consulted. 



Maidl (op. cit., p. 295) regards Sichel's albofasciata as a female 

 of X. tenuiscapa. As I can offer no opinion, never having seen 

 Sichel's species, I quote Maidl's remarks in extenso. He says : 

 " Ein 9 von Ceylon ges. auf der " Novara " Reise ist als Type 

 von albofasciata Sich. bezeichnet. Es ist ganz unzweifelhaft ein 

 tenuiscapa 9 , nur linden sich an den Abdominaltergiten Reste 

 weisser Fettausschwitzungen. Diese weisser Fettausschwitzungen 

 sind die weisser Binden Sichels ! Zu Zeit Sichels waren sie wahrs- 

 cheinlich starker, den inzwischen ist das Tier offenbar einmal in 

 Benzin gewaschen worden, wobei sich die Binden aufgelost haben ! 

 Die Art ist als svnonvm zu X. tenuiscapa Westw. zu setzen." 



