Genus Xylocopa. 273 



^ -— 53. Xylocopa circumvolans, 



Xylocopa circumvolans^ Smith, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



(1873), 205, $, $. 



Female black ; the pubescence black ; that on the thorax 

 above only being fiilvous-yellow ; wings dark brown, palest 

 towards the base, and Avith a blue and violet iridescence in 

 certain lights ; abdomen shining and rather finely punc- 

 tured ; head more strongly punctured, closely so only on 

 the face, which has a thin covering of sooty-black pubes- 

 cence. The male is of the same colour as the female, but 

 the wings are of a lighter colour ; the clypeus, scape of the 

 antennas, and a minute spot at the base of the mandibles, 

 yellowish-white. Length of the female ten and a halt 

 lines ; that of the male the same. 



Hah. — Hiogo (Japan). 



^ 54. Xylocopa cestuans. 



Apis cBstuans, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 961, $ ; Fabr. Ent. 

 Syst. ii. 323. 



Apis leucothorax, De Geer, Mem. iii. 573, pi. 28, f. 7. 



Bomhus (Bstuans, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 351. 



Xylocopa cestuaiis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 193, ^, $ ; 

 Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., Apidge, 

 ii. 353. 



Xylocopa verticalis, Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 48, $ , 

 nee St. Farg. 



The female is black, the pubescence black, except that 

 on the thorax above, which is yellow, and does not extend 

 beneath the wings; the wings black-brown, with bright 

 purple iridescence at the basal portion, beyond which it 

 has a greenish tinge. The male is clothed with yellow 

 pubescence ; on the abdomen it has a greenish or oliva- 

 ceous tinge ; on the legs it is greenish-yellow, on the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tarsi it is black, with a mixture of 

 yellow outside ; the abdomen has some black pubescence 

 at the sides towards the apex ; the wings fusco-hyaline, 

 darkest in the marginal cell, with a purple iridescence in 

 certain lights. Female, length eight to ten lines ; of the 

 male eight to nine lines. 



if«i.— India; China ; Borneo ; Java; Bali Island; 

 Sumatra; Celebes; Aru; Timor; Palestine; Aden. 



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