Descriptions and Records of Bees. 473 



terminal series of black points ; cilia brown at base, silvery white 

 at tijis. ^ Hind wing silvery white; a dark brown patch at base; 

 the terminal area golden yellow, expanding on inner area to middle, 

 defined on inner side by a series of dark points from below costa to 

 vein 2 and a striga at vein 1 ; a series of silvery- white marks before 

 termen from below costa to submedian fold, defined by blackish, the 

 spot below costa round, the others elongate except the small spot 

 below vein 5 ; minute terminal black sj)ots above and below vein 4 

 and slight strife towards apex and between veins 3 and 1 ; cilia 

 silvery white with some brown at apex and a brown line through 

 them from vein o to near tornus. 



ITab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 c? type. Kr2y. 

 24 mm. 



[To be continued.] 



XLVI. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXXV. 

 By T. D, A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado. 



Xylocopa draconis, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 25 mm., anterior wiugs 18"5 mm. 



Black, without any metallic tint ; thorax thickly covered 

 (except bare space on disc) with reddish-oclireous velvety 

 hair ; abdomen not banded. Eyes extremely large, con- 

 verging above ; mandibles bidentate, with a yellow basal 

 patch ; tubercle of labrum small ; clypeus ivory-colour, 

 more or less brownish, with a pair of black spots, the surface 

 of clypeus closely punctured, but an impunctate median 

 ridge ; supraclypeal area almost pallid ; ocelli large, far 

 down on front ; face and front with red-brown hair, darkest 

 around Ocelli ; top of head and cheeks Avith reddisli-ochreous 

 hair ; anterior femora swollen, without hair below ; anterior 

 and middle tibiae with bright fulvous hair on outer side, 

 reddish on inner, and sooty behind ; anterior tarsi similarly 

 coloured, but from middle of basitarsus on there is creamy- 

 white hair on under side posteriorly, beneath the sooty, and 

 on apical part of basitarsus anteriorly and beneath the red 

 is very bright ; middle tarsi with reddish- l)lack hair above 

 and behind, but red beneath ; hind femora broad, basally 

 keeled beneath, with a pustuliform swelling on the side of 

 the keel ; hind tibise with a conspicuous apical lobe, much 

 broader than long, on inner side ; hind basitarsi with 

 ochreous hair in front, black above and red behind, the 



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