474 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptlo ns and 



xiiuler side presentino: a laro;e, bare, sliining, elevated, wedge- 

 shaped surface ; tegiihe black. Wings brown, subtrans- 

 lucent, apically sutfused with ros^'-purple ; venation very 

 different from that of X sinensis, Smith, the third sub- 

 marginal cell not conspicuously broadened or bulging 

 apicallv, and the second much less elongated. Abdomen 

 witli sooty liair on first segment, second with fulvous, sooty 

 onlv along apical margin, the rest with scanty hair except 

 at sides and apex ; at sides it is sooty, except anteriorly on 

 segments 3 and 4, where is some fulvous ; at apex the hair 

 is long and redtlisli : beneath, the hind margins of the 

 segments are narrowly bright ferruginous and the hair is 

 fulvous. 



Southern China (no other particulars known). In U.S. 

 National Museum. 



Resembles X. appendiculata, Smith, but the hair is quite 

 ditfereutlv coloured. There is also a general resemblance to 

 the smaller A', cullaris. 



Xylocupa punctifrons, sp. n. 



f^ . — Length about 21 mm., anterior wings 16 mm. 



Clypeus (except lower margin, broadening laterally), 

 transverse supraclypeal mark and lateral face-marks (ending 

 very obtusely halfway up front) ivory-colour j labrum black, 

 with a minute light point ; thorax without conspicuous light 

 luiir, except at sides, where a broad band of greyish hair 

 extends from the tegulse to the ventral surface. Abdomen 

 with a little pale hair on first segment. AVings dark reddish 

 fuliginous, with strong purple tints ; light hair on hind 

 tibise, and middle and hind tarsi, as in X. tarsata, but it is 

 oehreous. 



French Congo (Queensland ]\Iuseum). Received by the 

 Museum from Le Moult of Paris. 



Very close to X. tarsata, Smith, but considerably larger, 

 with the greater part of clypeus and sides of face densely 

 punctured. The colour of the hair on the legs agrees with 

 that of X. tarsata, var. nainutonensis, Strand, but that form 

 has the size of tarsata. It is possible that A", punctifrons 

 is the undescribed male of A. ttiherculiceps, Ritsema, but the 

 legs have much more light hair than in the female of that 

 species, and the localities are far apart. 



In the same lot came A. carinata, Smith, Mesotrichia 

 prceusta (Smitli),and Crocisa ea,cisci,FiieiiC,h'om Dimbroko, 

 I'reueh W. Africa. 



