266 Mr. F. Smith's Monograph of the 



larger ; the face densely covered with black pubescence, 

 and the wings entirely dark brown, with a coppery and 

 violet iridescence ; its size is 10 lines. 

 Hab. — Sierra Leone; the Gambia. 



36. Xylocopa imitator. 



Xylocopa imitator, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., Apidje, ii. 

 351, $. 



This species is very like X. albiceps, but It is uniformly 

 larger, its wings are entirely dark brown, with a rich purple 

 iridescence, and at the extreme tip of the abdomen it has 

 some bright ferruginous pubescence ; its length is eight 

 and a half to nine and a half lines. 



Hah. — Sierra Leone ; Congo; Gold Coast. 



37. Xylocopa lugubris. 



Xylocopa lugubris, Gerst. Peter's Reise Mossamb. 445 ; 

 Taf. xxix. f. 4, $ . 



This is a small species, six lines long ; it is black, with 

 the thorax clothed above with griseous pubescence, as is 

 also the abdomen laterally ; the tarsi fuscous, the posterior 

 pair Avhite at the base ; the wings fuscous, Avith a violet 

 iridescence. 



Hab. — Mozambique. 



38. Xylocopa cirtana. 



Xylocopa cirtana, Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 167, 

 Atlas, pi. 4, fig. 10, ? ; Smith, 

 Cat. Hym. Ins., Apidas, ii. 347. 



This species is clothed with a greenish-fulvous pubes- 

 cence, the tibise and tarsi with fulvous-red pubescence ; the 

 wings slightly fuscous. One inch in length. 



Hab. — Algeria. 



39. Xylocopa Amedcei. 



Xylocopa Amedcei, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 188, $ ; Lucas, 

 Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 167, pi. 4, 

 fig. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., 

 Apidge, ii. 348. 

 This species is black, with black pubescence ; the tibire 

 and first joint of the tarsi with ferruginous pubescence. 

 Length twelve and a half lines. 

 Hab. — Algeria. 



