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15. ANTHOPHORA SENBX. 

 Mas. A. atra,pallide villosa, facie antice labroque flams ; pedlbus intermediis elongatis. 



Black ; the face as high as the insertion of the antennae, the labrum, and scape of the 

 antennas in front, yellow ; the pubescence on the head pale fulvous, whitish on the clypeus. 

 Thorax pubescent ; the pubescence faintly yellowish, that on the legs long and ragged ; 

 the tarsi testaceous, except the basal joint ; the intermediate legs elongate, the fifth joint 

 densely fringed with black pubescence, forming a thick brush ; the apical joint of the tarsi 

 rufo-piceous. Abdomen thinly covered with pale pubescence ; the margins of the segments 

 pale testaceous. Male, length 5J lines. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Yarkand and Yangihissar. Taken in April. 



This genus is cosmopolitan, not less than one hundred and fifty species are known ; of 

 these twelve are from India. 



16. XYLOCOPA NITIDIVENTRIS, x Fig. 10. 



Femina. X. nigra, tliorace supra pube Jlava decorata, tibiarum posticarum apicibus tarsis- 

 que omnibus pube ferruginea vestitis, alls nigro-fuscis iridescentibus. 



Black ; the pubescence on the head black ; very closely punctured and opaque. Thorax, 

 clothed above with bright pale yellowish pubescence ; on the sides, beneath, and on the 

 femora and tibiae, it is black ; that at the apex of the posterior tibiae and on all the tarsi, 

 bright fulvo-ferruginous ; that on the anterior tarsi mixed with a little black on the first 

 joint ; wings fuscous, palest towards their base, and having a violet iridescence in certain 

 lights. Abdomen very smooth and shining, and also very convex, being subglobose; 

 beneath, the apical margins of the segments are narrowly ferruginous, the two sub-apical 

 ones being fringed with bright ferruginous hairs. Female, length 7-J lines. 



Hab. Taken in May, in the neighbourhood of Yarkand. 



17. XYLOCOPA DTJBIOSA, Fig. 9. 



Mas. X. nigra, fulvo-pubescente ; facie antice labioque flavis ; abdomine ovato, con- 

 vexiusculo, segmentorum marginibus fulvo fasciatis. 



Black; the head, thorax, and the base of the abdomen densely clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence ; the face below the insertion of the antennae and the labrum, yellow ; the 

 anterior margin of the latter black; the tarsi ferruginous; wings fulvo- hyaline, slightly 

 fuscous towards their apical margins ; the nervures ferruginous, the costal nervure blackish. 

 Abdomen ovate, truncate at the base, convex, shining and finely punctured; the apical 

 margins of the segments with a narrow fringe of fulvous pubescence, more or less interrupted 

 in the middle ; the sixth and seventh segments covered with fulvous pubescence. Male, 

 length 7^ lines. Probably the male of X. nitidiventris. 



Taken in April, at Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. 



1 Represented on the plate as -2T. dubiosa- ? 



