282 Mr. F. Smith's Monograph of the 



pubescence black, and only found on the cheeks, legs, 

 and sides of the abdomen ; the legs are blue, the abdomen 

 brilliant violet beneath ; wings flisco-hyaline, with a faint 

 violet tinge towards their apex. The male closely re- 

 sembles the other sex; the eyes very lai-ge and nearly 

 uniting on the vertex ; the clypeus and the face on each 

 side of it yellowish- white. 



Hah. — Jamaica ; Antilles (West Indies). 



79. Xylocopa viridis. 



Xylocopa viridis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., Apidas, ii. 

 360, $. 



The male is green, the abdomen having a blue tinge; 

 the labi'um, clypeus, inner orbits of the eyes, a line on the 

 mandibles, and .the basal joint of the antennge in front, 

 yellowish-white ; the pubescence on the thorax, above, pale 

 fulvous ; that on the entire insect beneath is nearly white ; 

 the anterior femora and tibiee beneath, the apical joints of 

 the anterior tarsi, and all the claw-joints, rufo-piceous ; 

 wings subhyaline, with the nervures ferruginous. The 

 apical margins of the segments of the abdomen with a 

 narroAV fringe of white pubescence, slightly interrupted in 

 the middle ; the apical segment fringed Avith black pubes- 

 cence. The female closely resembles the male, the pos- 

 terior legs ha"\ang the usual brush of hairs, white outside, 

 black within, and tipped with ferruginous at the apex 

 beneath ; there is also a little ferruginous pubescence at 

 the extreme apex of the abdomen, and on each side of it 

 is a fringe of black hairs ; the apical margins of the second 

 and following segments have a narrow white marginal 

 fringe, more or less interrupted in the middle. Length of 

 the sexes seven lines. 



Hab. — St. Paulo ; Santarem (Brazil). 



*- 80. Xylocopa harhata. 



Xylocopa harhata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 141, $ ; St. Farg. 

 Hym. ii. 190; Smith, Cat. Hym. 

 Ins., Apidse, ii. 361. 

 Black, with a violet tinge; the cheeks covered with 

 white pubescence ; the face has also a little white pubes- 

 cence ; the two apical segments of the abdomen fringed 

 with Avhite; the wings dark brown, with a purple and 

 violet iridescence. The male is of a brighter blue or 



