Genus Xylocopa. 269 



44. Xylocopa fenestrata. 



Apis fene strata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 273, i. 

 Xylocopa fenestrata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 339; St. Farg. 



Hym. ii. 184, $ (iiec $). 

 Xylocopa inclica. King, Mag. der Gesell. Nat. fur zu 

 Berlin(1807), var. ? 



Male. — Black, punctured ; the punctures fine and dis- 

 tant on the mesothorax, scutellum, and down the middle 

 of the abdomen ; the sides more strongly and closely punc- 

 tured ; the Avings hyaline at their base ; more or less so in 

 different examples ; beyond brown-black, with a violet 

 iridescence. Female. — Shining black, finely and not very 

 closely punctured ; disk of the metathorax impunctate. 

 The head as wide as the thorax ; the face rather strongly 

 and very closely punctured ; the frontal tubercle promi- 

 nent, and the lateral margins of the clypeus slightly 

 elevated ; the flagellum of the antennte, except the three 

 basal joints, testaceoixs beneath ; the wings dark brown- 

 black, with a bright violet iridescence toAvards their base, 

 changing to an aeneous tint at their apical margins. The 

 lateral margins of the abdomen towards its apex fringed 

 with black ])ubescence, the fringe at the apex is tipped 

 with ferruginous. (See note below description of A'. 

 inclica.^ 



Length of each sex ten lines. 



I received the sexes of this species from Calcutta, Avhere 

 it was taken by Mr. G. A. James Kothney ; the female 

 described by St. Fargeau, has nothing to do with this 

 sj^ecies. 



Hab. — India ; Celebes. 



^ " — ^ *45. Xylocopa ccsrulea, 



Bomhus cceruleus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 345, 2 . 

 Xylocopa ccerulea, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 200 ; Smith, 

 Cat. Hym. Ins., Apidfe, ii. 357. 



Known immediately by the blue pubescence that clothes 

 the head, thorax, and basal segment of the abdomen ; a 

 male from Java has the face covered with dirty-white 

 pubescence, the rest of the head and thorax with blue ; 

 but this coloured pubescence does not extend to the abdo- 

 men, which has sooty -black pubescence at its base ; on 

 the rest of the abdomen and legs it is black. A small 

 example from China, a female, has the eyes more approxi- 

 mating, and the wings are fusco-hyaline, darkest beyond 



