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XYLOCOPA CONFUSA Perez. 



Bg. Tambclan Island, China Sea (W. L.Abbott); Trong, Lower 

 Siam (W. L. Abbott); Shanghai, China (E. Deschamps) ; Buitenzorg, 

 Java (D. G. Fairchild). 



XYLOCOPA SINENSIS Smith. 



Four females from Foochow, China (H. E. Caldwell). This is the 

 type-locality. 



XYLOCOPA COLLARIS Lepeletier. 



Khow Sai Dow Mountain, 1,000 feet, Lower Siam (W. L.Abbott); 

 Trong, Lower Siam (W. L. Abbott). 



XYLOCOPA NITIDIVENTRIS Smith. 



Kukiar, eastern Turkestan, July 28, 1894 (W. L. Abbott). 



XYLOCOPA COLLARIS NIGRESCENS Friese. 



Like X. coUaris lingliami Cockerell, from theKhasia Hills, but dis- 

 tinguished as follows: 



Female. — Abdomen distinctly greenish; light hair of front and 

 sides of thorax bright fulvous, that on thorax in front more extensive 

 and not distinctly defined posteriorly; sides of mesothorax and hind 

 part of scutellum with short pale fulvous hair; wings, as in hinghami, 

 paler than in t3"pical coUaris. 



Male. — Almost exactly like linghami, but a little larger (length 

 about 21 mm.), and the fifth abdominal segment wdth a broad band 

 of pale hair, which is separated from the pale-haired part of abdomen 

 in front by a dark band (the first four segments being pale-haired). 



Ilahitat. — Ilorisha, Formosa (T. Fukai). 



This was described as new^, but after the manuscript was sent in 

 Friese published it as X. sauteri, var. nigrescens. 



The following table separates the males of the coUaris type: 



First four abdominal segments pale-haired, and a broad pale band on fifth. . nigrescens. 



First three segments pale-haired hinghami. 



First two segments pale-haired coUaris (dejeani). 



SPHECODES JAPONICUS, new species. 



Male. — Length 8 to 9 mm.; head and thorax black, very coarsely 

 punctured, with dull white pubescence conspicuous on the face, pro- 

 thorax (including tubercles), and pleura; mandibles dark; head trans- 

 versely oval; face very broad, orbits strongly converging below; an- 

 tennae black, joints 2 and 3 mere rings, shorter together than fourth; 

 joints 5 to 13 greatly swollen below, so that the flagcllum is very strongly 

 crenulated; mesothorax and scutellum wntli very large, irregular, 

 partly confluent punctures; metathorax very coarsely sculptured all 

 over with irregular ridges; posterior face of metathorax ill-defixied 



