298 Mr. F. Smith's Monograjih of the 



short and dense, and long and dense at its apex ; the 

 apical margins of the segments are obscurely fuscous. 

 Length eight and a half lines. 



Female entirely black, punctured, and shining ; the 

 disk of the thorax and the scutellum sparingly punctate ; 

 the flagellum of the antenna?, except the three basal joints, 

 testaceous beneath ; wings fusco-hyaline, darkest at their 

 apex, and having a violet iridescence. Abdomen : the api- 

 cal segments fringed laterally with black pubescence ; at 

 the extreme apex is a little ferruginous pubescence ; this 

 would probably be frequently obliterated. Length eleven 

 lines. 



Hah. — Cuba. 



*118. Xylocojia orpifex. 



Female. — Entirely black and closely punctured; the 

 frontal tubercle obsolete ; the labrum with a single tooth, 

 and fringed with ferruginous hairs. The thorax pubes- 

 cent, and having a small impunctate space on the disk ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, with a darker cloud at their apical 

 margins. Abdomen finely but not closely punctured. 

 Length seven and a half lines. 



Male. — Black, a spot on the mandibles and the face, as 

 high as the insertion of the antenna3, pale yellow; the 

 front of the thorax Avith ochraceous pubescence ; on the 

 thorax beneath the pubescence is paler. Abdomen finely 

 and sparingly punctured ; wings as in the other sex. 

 Length seven and a half lines. 



Hah. — California. 



*119. Xylocopa loripes. 



Male. — Blue-black, with A-iolet and purple tints on the 

 thorax and abdomen ; the pubescence black ; the clypeus, 

 a space above it, the face at its sides, and also the abdo- 

 men beneath, yellow ; the wings fusco-hyaline, with a slight 

 violet iridescence ; the anterior and intermediate tibiaB and 

 tarsi with a long fringe of black pubescence behind ; the 

 posterior tibia? curved, thickened, and deeply notched at 

 their apex ; the notch is a curved exterior excavation, and 

 terminates in a short spine ; the first joint of the tarsi is 

 densely pubescent, and exteriorly forms a long floccus. 

 The sides of the al)domen are thickly fi-inged with pubes- 

 cence, forming a thick brush at the apex. The eyes very 



