of Aculeate Hymenoptera of Jcq)an. 205 
France, Italy, Albania, Tunis, Algeria, Madeira, Canary 
Islands. 
The specimens from Japan I have carefully examined, 
and cannot separate them from A. nidulans. 
Genus Xylocopa, Latr. 
— - 1. Xylocopa circumvolans. ^ 
Female. Length 10^ lines. Shining black : the head 
strongly punctured, most closely so on the face ; the cly- 
peus Avitli a central smooth line down the middle ; the face 
has, at the insertion of the antenna?, and at the anterior 
margin of the clypeus, some short black pubescence. The 
thorax clothed above Avith pale fulvous pubescence ; on the 
sides, legs, and also beneath, it is black; Avings dark brown, 
Avitli blue and violet iridescence in certain lights. Abdomen 
punctured, most closely so toAA^ards its apex. 
Male. The same size as the female, and clothed Avitli 
pubescence of the same colour; the clypeus, a triangular 
spot above it, and the scape beneath, yelloAv ; also a yellow 
spot at the base of the mandibles ; the posterior tibia? 
incrassate, and tuberculate beneath, eyes large and more 
ap2)roximating than in the female, but not very closely so. 
Hab. — Hiogo. 
(Div. SOCIALES.) 
Genus BoMBUS, Fabr. 
1. Bomhus speciosus. \. 
Female. Length 10 lines. Black: the face and the 
vertex clothed Avith yellow pubescence. The thorax clothed 
AAdth yelloAv pubescence, and Avith a black band betAveen the 
Avings ; the Avings subhy aline, and having a fuscous cloud 
beyond the cells ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, 
the claAvs black. Abdomen : the two basal segments 
clothed Avitli yelloAV pubescence, the third Avith black, and 
the rest Avith bright ferruginous ; beneath, the entire pubes- 
cence is yelloAv. 
Hab. — Hiogo. 
This species Avas taken at an elevation of 4,000 feet, but 
only a single specimen ; it resembles Bombiis trifascuitn$ 
from North China; Avhicli differs from it in having the 
head elongate, and its pubescence black ; the abdometi 
beneath and the legs have also black pubescence. 
