474: ^Ir. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



uiuler sule presenting a large, bare, shiniug, elevated, wedge- 

 shaped surface ; teguloe black. Wings brown, subtrans- 

 liicent, apically suftused with rosy-purple ; venation very 

 ditferent from that of X. sinensis, Smith, the third sub- 

 marginal cell not conspicuously broadened or bulging 

 apicallv, and the second much less elongated. Abdomen 

 with sooty hair on first segment, second with fulvous, sooty 

 onlv along apical margin, the rest with scanty hair except 

 at sides and apex ; at sides it is sooty, except anteriorly on 

 segments 3 and 4-, where is some fulvous ; at apex the hair 

 is long and reddish : beneath, the hind margins of the 

 segments are narrowly bright ferruginous and the hair is 

 fulvous. 



Soutliern China (no other particulars known). In U.S. 

 National Museum. 



Resembles X. appendiculata, Smith, but the hair is quite 

 ditfereutlv coloured. There is also a general resemblance to, 

 tlie smaller A', culluris. 



Xylocopa punctifrons, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 21 mm., anterior wings 16 mm. 



Clypeus (except lowm- margin, broadening laterally), 

 transverse snpraclypeal mark and lateral face-marks (ending 

 very obtusely halfway np front) ivory-colour j labrum black, 

 with a minute light point ; thorax without conspicuous light 

 hair, except at sides, where a broad band of greyish hair 

 extends from the teguhie to the ventral surface. Abdomen 

 with a little pale hair on first segment. AVings dark reddish 

 fuliginous, with strong purple tints ; light hair on hind 

 tibiae, and middle and hind tarsi, as in X. tarsata, but it is 

 ochreous. 



French Congo (Queensland Museum). Received by the 

 Museum from Le Moult of Paris. 



Very close to X. tarsata. Smith, but considerably larger, 

 with the greater part of clypeus and sides of face densely 

 punctured. The colour of the hair on the legs agrees with 

 that of X. tarsata, var. namutonensis. Strand, but that form 

 has the size of tarsata. It is possible that A', punctifrons 

 is the undescribed male of X. tnberculiceps, Ritsema, but the 

 legs have much more light hair than in the female of that 

 species, and the localities are tar apart. 



In the same lot came A', carinata. Smith, Mesotrichia 

 prceusta (Smith), and Crocisa ea:cisa,Fnesejfrom Dimbi-oko, 

 French W. Africa. 



