Genus Xylocopa. 275 



yellow pubescence ; the wings flisco-liyaline. Length eight 

 and a half lines. 



The male clothed with reddish-yellow pubescence ; the 

 anterior legs elongate, the tarsi with a long pale fringe 

 behind ; the posterior legs with black pubescence Avithin ; 

 wings subhyaline, with a bright coppery iridescence. 

 Length ten lines. 



Hob. — Mysol ; Waigiou ; N. India. 



58. Xylocopa pictifrons. 



Xylocopa pictifrons, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



New Ser. ii. 42, ^, $ (1852). 



The female is black, clothed with black pubescence, and 

 shining ; the head closely j^unctured ; the thorax more 

 finely and sparingly so, and rounded behind ; wings fusco- 

 hyaline towards the base, darker beyond the enclosed cells, 

 and also in the marginal and submarginal cells ; with a 

 golden iridescence towards the base, and purplish towards 

 the apex. The male is clothed Avith fulvous-yellow pubes- 

 cence, and has a longitudinal, obscure, darkish line on the 

 thorax and abdomen ; on the face a line of black pubes- 

 cence ; a broad yellow stripe on each side of the face, 

 which extends to the hinder margin of the vertex. Length 

 of the female, which is narrower than the species of the 

 genus usually are, ten lines; of the male nine lines. 



Ilab. — North China ; Java. 



59. Xylocopa hryorum. 



Apis hryorum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 321, $. 



Bomhus hryorum, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 348. 



Xylocopa dimidiata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 199, $. 



This species very closely resembles X. ceshians, in both 

 sexes ; the female differs in having the head clothed with 

 cinereous pubescence, and the abdomen has sometimes, 

 but rarely, a little yellow pubescence in the middle of the 

 base, this is usually abraded; the wings are a degree 

 lighter than in X. cBstuans, the male scarcely differs from 

 it; it is usually rather larger than any specimens of 

 X. (Bstuans male, the posterior tibiffi are more incrassate, 

 and the pubescence on the tarsi is more ferruginous ; the 

 species is also a degree larger. 



Hah. — AiTstralia. 



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