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IN SKiTS ABKOAD. 



Figures of some of these bees may be seen on page 520 and 

 on Plate X. 



Fig. 500.— Laphria xylocopiformis. 



(Blue -black.) 



The specimen from which the figure was drawn was taken tit 

 Madras. Its colour is wholly blue-black, just like the female 



of the species described 

 on page 520, or A'//clopa 

 morio, which is given on 

 Plate X. The resemblance 

 in form will be seen at a 

 glance by comparing the 

 two figures. 



The insect which now 

 comes before us is an 

 undescribed species, 

 which I call Laphria 

 consimilis, on account of 

 its remarkable resemb- 

 lance to one of the wood- 

 cutter bees of Southern 

 Africa. Indeed, so close 

 is the resemblance, that if a specimen of these Hies were placed 



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!•'[.,. 501.— Laphria consimilis. New Species. 

 (Black an J grey.) 



