hymenoptera. 346 



3. Xylocopa fuscata. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Fuscous, tbe antennae ferruginous, 

 slightly fuscous towards their apex above ; the face on each side 

 of the clypeus, which is strongly punctured, has a pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; the thorax and legs have a fulvous pubescence, 

 palest on the former beneath, and very bright on the posterior 

 tibiffi and tarsi ; the legs ferruginous ; wings subhyaline, the 

 nervm-es and tegulae rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the apical 

 margins of the second and three following segments fi-inged with 

 pale pubescence, interrupted in the middle ; the apex bright 

 fulvous ; beneath rufo-testaceous, the apical segments fringed 

 with ferruginous pubescence. 



Hub. Albania (Yaniua). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



4. Xylocopa lanata. B.M. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the clypeus, 

 a triangular shape above it, and the labrum, white ; the antennae 

 ferruginous, the mandibles rufo-testaceous ; the head and thorax 

 have a dense white woolly pubescence, that on the disk of the 

 latter has a yellow hue ; the wings hyaline, having a pale fulvous 

 stain, the nervures pale rufo-testaceous, the tegulse white, having 

 a ferruginous stain in front ; the legs pale rufo-testaceous, having 

 a pale golden fulvous pubescence. Abdomen dark testaceous, 

 having on the basal segment a pale yellow pubescence, the apical 

 segments clothed with bright fulvous ; the apical margins rufo- 

 testaceous, and having laterally a narrow white marginal fringe ; 

 beneath ferruginous. 



Hab. Tm-key. 



5. Xylocopa cantabrita. B.M. 

 Xylocopa cantabrita, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 193. 35. 



Hab. Spain. 



6. Xylocopa sinuatifrons. 



Xylocopa sinuatifrons, Sjnn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. ser. 2. 143. 

 (1843). 



Hab. Spain. 



7. Xylocopa hellenica. 



Xylocopa hellenica, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr. ser. 2. i. 144 (1843). 



Hab. Spain. 



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