252 Mr. F. Smith's Monograph of the 



2. Xylocopa cyanescens. 



Xylocopa cyanescens, Brulle, Exped. Scient. de Moree, 

 Zool. iii. p. 339, pi. 48, fig. 8 ; 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 

 166 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., 

 Apidse, ii. 344 ; Gerst. Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. (1872), p. 279. 

 Xylocopa minuta, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 190, ^, $. 

 Xylocopa taurica, Erichs. in Reis. in der Regentsch. 

 Algier, von M. Wagner, iii. 192, 

 $, £. 

 Blue, with occasionally violet tints on the abdomen ; the 

 head black, or blue-black ; wings dark fliscous, with a 

 violet iridescence ; the male resembles the female in colour. 

 The sexes are from five to six lines long. 



Hab. — France ; Switzerland ; The Morea ; Sicily ; 

 Syria; Algeria. 



3. Xylocopa Olivieri. 



Xylocopa Olivieri, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 192, $ ; Gerst. 



Stett. Ent. Zeit. (1872), p. 281. 

 Xylocopa hellenica, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, i. 



2nd ser. (1843), p. 144. 

 Xylocopa fuscata, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., Apids, 



p. 345, $. 

 Xylocopa fasciata, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 



(1854), ii. p. 198. 



Female. — Rufo-fuscous, sometimes nigro-fuscous ; the 

 pubescence fulvous. Head much narrower than the 

 thorax ; antennae ferruginous, usually more or less fuscous 

 above ; thorax densely pubescent above ; wings slightly 

 flavo-hyaline, the nervures and tegulse rufo-testaceous ; 

 abdomen, the apical margins of the segments with narrow 

 fascia of pale fulvous pubescence ; that at the apex bright 

 fulvous. The male resembles the female, but has the 

 labrum and clypeus white. Length 10 lines. 



^a6.— South-east of Europe ; Greece; Turkey; Bag- 

 dad ; Russia ; Syria. 



St. Fargeau in his description of the male does not 

 notice the white clypeus and labrum ; this renders it doubt- 

 ful whether it really belongs to this species. Dr. Ger- 

 &tacker quotes, Avith a query, the probability of myX lanata, 

 from Turkey, belonging to this species. I observe the fol- 



