Genus Xylocopa. 295 



with three teeth, or tubercles ; the flagelkira of the an- 

 tennge^ beneath, beyond the second joint, is rufo-testaceous ; 

 the wings brown-black and adorned with a bnlliant purple 

 iridescence ; the inferior margin of the posterior wings is 

 coppery ; the abdomen finely punctured. Length ekven 

 lines. 



Hab.—^^n Domingo ; Island of Nevis (Lesser Antilles). 



Species of North America. 

 C —~ 112. Xylocopa virginica. 

 Apis virgi7iica, Drury, Illus. Exot. Ins, i. 96, pi. 43, 

 fig. 1, ^ ; Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 318, 15. 

 Bomhus virginicus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 346. 

 Xylocopa virginica, Westw. ed. Drury (1837), pi. 43, 

 fig. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., 

 Apidfe, ii. 362 ; Cresson, Hym, 

 Texaria, 283. 

 Centris Carolina, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 357, $. 

 Xylocopa Carolina, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 207, ^, 5 ; Say, 

 Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 412 ; 

 Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., Apidfe, 

 ii. 363. 



The sexes of this species are similai-ly coloured ; they 

 are black, the pubescence on the thorax and basal segment 

 of the abdomen above have a pale rufo-cinereous ptibes- 

 cence ; there is also a little on the anterior tarsi ; the rest 

 of the pubescence is black ; the male has the eyes large, 

 and approximating on the vertex ; and has the clypeus, 

 and the face on each side of it, as high as the insertion of 

 the antennffi, yellowish-white. 



Hah. — United States; Florida; Carolina; Virginia; 

 Texas; Cuba. 



113. Xylocopa texana. 



Xylocopa texana, Cresson, Hym. Texana, 283, ^, $. 



This species resembles X. virginica, and is about the 

 same size, fi:'om nine to ten lines long ; but it^ is of a blue, 

 or dark-green colour, varying in different specimens in that 

 respect ; the head is black ; and faintly blue on the vertex ; 

 the thorax usually dark green, the abdomen dark green, or 

 olive. The pubescence of the female is pale ochraceous on 

 the thorax above, there is a little beneath the wings, also 

 on the basal segment of the abdomen, and on each side the 



