NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.—COCKERELL. 637 



Form b. Scutellum dull yellow; second abdominal segment vari- 

 ably fulvous, always so at base. Japan, two examples (Mitsukuri) ; 

 Swatow, China (Koebele). 



Male. — Abdomen broad and short, black without bands, but with 

 dense pale hair at base. Japan, No. 127. 



This is a feebly distinguished subspecies, perhaps originally confined 

 to Japan, but now occurring also in China. It always has the 

 labrum more or less reddish or yellowish, as usual in the indica group. 

 Ashmead makes A. cerana Fabricius a distinct species, with sinensis 

 Smith and jayonica Radoszkowski as synonyms. The identity of 

 cerana seems to be doubtful, and sinensis is not the same variety (in 

 a restricted sense) as ja'ponica. Smith records A. nigrocincta Smith 

 also from Japan. I have a Chinese nigrocincta from Smith's collec- 

 tion, and can not agree with Buttel-Reepen's view that it is identical 

 with peroni Latreille. True peroni, as described by Latreille, has the 

 fulvous color confined to the first three abdominal segments, while 

 nigrocincta has all the segments fulvous, with black borders. 



APIS INDICA PERONI Latreille. 



I refer here to a series of specimens from Pekin, China (M. L, Robb) 

 and Foochow, China (J. P. Grant). The amount of fulvous on the 

 abdomen varies, from that required by the original description (first 

 two segments fulvous except broad hind margins, base of third fulvous) 

 to the small amount at base described for the variety picea Buttel- 

 Reepen. These are evidently only individual variations. The scu- 

 tellum is usually dark, but sometimes dull yellow. There is also a 

 worker peroni from Horisha, Formosa (T. Fukai). 



APIS INDICA Fabricius. 



Shanghai, China (E. Deschamps). A pallid form, with the scape 

 red. 



XYLOCOPA CIRCUMVOLANS Smith. 



Japan; three females and one male. One female is from Tokyo. 

 The male and two females were collected by Mitsukuri. One female 

 labeled "Southern China" has the middle of the occiput with yellow 

 hair, to that extent approaching X. appendiculata Smith, but other- 

 wise it is like circumvolans. Perez suggests that appendiculata and 

 circumvolans are varieties of a single species. 



XYLOCOPA LATIPES (Drary). 



Buitenzorg, Java (D. G. Faircliild); Trong, Lower Siam (W. L. 

 Abbott); Thagata, Tenasserim (Fea). In Bingham's description of 

 the male (Fauna of British India) for tibiae read basitarsi. 



XYLOCOPA LUNULATA MINENSIS Cockerell. 



South China; one male. 



