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therefore, certainly natural. This ridge is normal for Xylocopa, 
to which the Bombus abavus, Heer (tom. cit., p. 5), must appa- 
rently be referred. The only doubt arises from Heer’s figure, 
which represents a similar-looking object, but with head and 
abdomen. The Zurich specimen may therefore not be the true 
type. 
Another Xylocopa (X. senilis, Heer) has been described from 
Giningen. The type appears to be at Carlsruhe, and I did not 
see it. 
Xylocopa jurinet (Heer). 
Bombus jurinei, Heer, tom. cit., p. 4, taf. ILI. fig. 8. 
The type is a very large and stout-bodied bee, like a Bombus. 
Head lacking, abdomen 12 mm. wide, hind legs with a coarse 
scopa, marginal cell with a dark cloud. Only part of the 
venation can be made out, but all that can be seen agrees with 
Xylocopa, and not with Bombus. The second recurrent nervure 
can be seen entering the third submarginal cell far from its end, 
and the shape of the cell (base and extreme apex not visible) is 
as in Xylocopa. ‘The lower side of the cell is arched before the 
insertion of the recurrent nervures, as in X. violacea. The 
apical part of the second discoidal cell can also be seen, exactly 
as in Xylocopa. There is also visible a considerable part of the 
venation of the hind wing, showing the transverso-cubital, and 
the ends of the marginal and cubital nervures, quite as in 
A ylocopa. 
Anthophorites titania (Heer). 
Scutellum broad and flat; mesothorax rather small; meta- 
thorax with apparently a sharp edge separating base from apical 
truncation; head absent; first abdominal segment narrowed 
basally, the abdomen broadest at middle of third segment; 
stigma narrow, rather well-developed; upper section of basal 
nervure shorter than lower; marginal cell sharply pointed, 
rather broad basally ; rest of venation cannot be made out. 
The specimen here described is supposed to be the type, but 
it is evidently not the one figured by Heer. The species was 
described from two specimens from (iningen in the Carlsruhe 
collection; perhaps the one now at Zurich is one of them. The 
genus Anthophorites cannot be precisely defined, but includes 
various fossil bees supposed to be more or less similar to 
Anthophora. I herewith designate Heer’s first species, A. mellona, 
as the type. 
The generic position of A. titania, at least as exemplified by 
the Zurich specimen, remains obscure. 
Anthophorites longeva, Heer. 
2. Clearly a bee; eyes large; face narrow; middle joints 
of the rather stout flagellum a little longer than broad; abdo- 
