Genus Xylocojw. 289 



*96. Xylocopa anthophoj-oides. 



Female. — Head and thorax black, the abdomen black, 

 with a faint purple or \aolet tinge ; the head has a fulvous 

 pubescence on the vertex, on the face it inclines to gri- 

 seous, it is also griseous on the cheeks. The thorax is 

 clothed above with fulvous pubescence ; beneath and at 

 the sides, as well as on the coxi\3 and femora beneath, it is 

 griseous ; on the tarsi beneath the pubescence is ferru- 

 ginous, as it is also on the apical portion of the posterior 

 pair above, otherwise the legs have a griseous pubescence ; 

 the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; the wings fulvo- 

 hyaline, their apical margins slightly clouded, the nervures 

 ferruginous. Abdomen : the two basal segments thinly 

 covered with short, pale-fulvous pubescence, the apical 

 margins of the segments fringed with cinereous pubes» 

 cence, as are also the two apical segments at the sides ; 

 the extreme apex with a tvift of ferruginous pubescence ; 

 all the segments beneath are narrowly rufo-testaceous, and 

 are fi-inged with cinereous pubescence. Length six and a 

 half lines. 



Hob. —St. Paulo (Brazil) ; Mexico. 



97. Xylocopa artifex. 



Female. — Black, with black pubescence ; that on the 

 head being thinly scattered on the face and cheeks ; an 

 impressed line in front of the anterior ocellus, Avhich 

 terminates at a short raised line between the antenna? ; 

 the disk of the thorax and the scutellum smooth and 

 shining ; the claws only, not the claw -joint, ferruginous ; 

 the wings fusco-hyaline, and having a brilliant coppery 

 iridescence, their apical portion tinted with violet ; the 

 abdomen is thinly covered with short black pubescence, 

 its sides and apex being thickly fringed. Length seven 

 lines. 



Hah. — Soixth Brazil. 



This species is in every respect coloured the same as 

 X. CEneipennis, the wings being also of the same colour. 

 St. Fargeau gives the variation of that species in length 

 to be from six to ten lines, a difference not approached by 

 any other species; the individuals measuring six lines 

 were probably the present species. In one particular 

 X. artifex differs from all examples which I refer to 



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