358 HYMENOPTERA. 



elevated carina passes forward from the anterior stemma and 

 terminates opposite the insertion of the antennae ; the margins 

 of the clypeus not raised ; the labrum having a central quadrate 

 tubercle. Thorax smooth and shining, having a beautiful violet 

 iridescence; the metathorax sometimes having a ferruginous 

 tinge ; the wings dark fuscous, and having a violet iridescence ; 

 the legs entirely black. Abdomen : the three basal segments, 

 sometimes the base of the fourth, red, their apical margins having 

 a black baud ; sides of the abdomen having a fringe of black 

 pubescence; the entire surface closely punctured beneath, the 

 margins of the segments rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Australia. 



69. Xylocopa Brasilianorum. B.M. 



Apis Brasilianorum, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 961. 49 (? . 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 323. 40. 

 Xylocopa Brasilianorum, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 340. 1 1 . 



St.Farg. Hym. ii. 201. 4?. 



Hab. Brazil. 



This insect is in all probability identical with the X. teredo 

 of Guilding ; there is nothing in the descriptions to separate 

 them. 



70. Xylocopa carbonaria. B.M. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Black, the head narrower than the 

 thorax, closely and strongly jjunctured; the clypeus coarsely 

 punctured, the margin raised posteriorly, and a little way on 

 each side, not reaching the anterior margin; in the centre a 

 narrow longitudinal smooth space, the labrum having three small 

 tubercles. Thorax : the middle of the disk impunctate smooth 

 and shining, beyond which it is strongly punctured, and densely 

 clothed with short black pubescence; wings dark fuscous, and 

 having a changeable violet iridescence ; the legs entirely black. 

 Abdomen very closely punctured, fringed at the sides with black 

 pubescence, densely so towards the apex; beneath, strongly 

 punctured and longitudinally subcarinate in the centre. 



Ha6. Brazil (Tapaj OS). (Coll. W.W. Bates.) 



71. Xylocopa colona. B.M. 

 Xylocopa colona, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 186. 17. 



Hab. Cayenne. 



