268 Mr. F. Smith's Monograph of the 



41. Xylocopa tenuiscapa. 



Flatyno-poda tenuiscapa, Westw. Nat. Libr. (Jardine's) 



Entom. vi. 27, pi. 23, fig. 

 2, $. 



Audinetia LatreilUi, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 206, $ , ^. 



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

 353. 



Xylocopa viridipennis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 205, ? , var.? 



Hab. — India ; Java ; Ceylon ; Penang ; Philippines. 



42. Xylocopa alb o-f as data. 



Xylocopa albo-fasciata, Sichel, Reise der Novara, 



Hym. Foss. et Mellif. 

 154, 2. 



Hab. — Ceylon. 



This is a large species, over one inch and a quarter in 

 length ; it is black and punctured ; the antennas fuscous 

 beneath ; the mandibles bidentate ; the clypeus with a 

 slight carina ; the pubescence black on the head and 

 thorax ; the latter Avith strong, but distant punctures ; the 

 metathorax truncate. Abdomen strongly j^unctured, the 

 base truncate ; the marginal fimbria black ; the basal mar- 

 gins of the segments with narrow white fascite of downy 

 pile ; the wings fusco-hyaline. 



43. Xylocopa dissimilis. 



^^ Xylocopa dissimilis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 180, $ , 2 ; 



Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., ApidjB, 

 ii. 356. 



A large black species of an oblong, narrow form ; the 

 thorax rounded behind ; head semi-opaque and closely 

 punctured ; thorax and abdomen shining ; the disk of the 

 metathorax impunctate ; abdomen finely and distantly 

 punctured ; Avings black-brown, with violet, purple, and, 

 towards the apex, golden iridescence. The male is known 

 by its having the clypeus and sides of the face yellowish- 

 white, and by the anterior ocellus having a white lunule 

 on each side ; the posterior femora are very much enlarged, 

 and have a blunt tooth or tubercle at their base ; the coxa? 

 are tuberculate at the apex; the thorax has a band of 

 whitish pubescence in front and a patch of the same colour 

 beneath the wings. 



iyo*.— India ; Burmah ; Philippine Islands : China. 



