352 HYMENOPTERA. 



shining on the disk, the sides of which are densely clothed with 

 short black pubescence ; wings very dark fuscous, having a bright 

 purple iridescence ; the legs have a black pubescence. Abdomen 

 shining, finely and closely punctured at the sides, the punc- 

 tures more distant in the middle ; the extreme ai^ex has a httle 

 bright ferruginous pubescence. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



This species very closely approaches the X. albiceps, but it is 

 one-third larger, the wings are of a uniform deep purple, not 

 lighter towards the base, as in X albiceps, nor is the abdomen so 

 closely punctured. 



36. Xylocopa modesta. 



Female. Length 64 lines. — Black, the face densely covered 

 with short black pubescence, the vertex fringed with black ; the 

 thorax and basal segment of the abdomen above densely clothed 

 with short bright yellow pubescence ; the wings dark fuscous at 

 their apical margins, towards the base subhyaline, aird having a 

 faint purple iridescence ; the legs black. 



Male closely resembling the female, but having the face covered 

 with cinereous pubescence, and the legs beneath rufo-piceous ; 

 the wings as in the female. 



Hab. The Gambia. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



37. Xylocopa lunata. 



Xylocopa lunata, Klug, Mag. der Gesell. Nat. Fr. zu Berlin 



(1807), t. 7. fig. 2. 



Hab. Tranquebar. 



SS. Xylocopa Indica. 



Xylocopa Indica, Klug, Mag. der Gesell. Nat. Fr. zu Berlin 

 (1807), t. 7. f. 2. 



Hab. Tranquebar. (Coll. W.W. Saunders, Esq.) 



39. Xylocopa verticalis. B.M. 

 Xylocopa verticalis, St.Farg. Hym. ii. 195. 38. 



Hab. India. 



40. Xylocopa viridipennis. B.M. 

 Xylocopa viridipennis, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 205. 54. 



Hab. India ; Philippine Islands. 



