362 HYMENOPTERA. 



91. XYLOCOPA NITENS. 



Xylocopa nitens, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 176. 3. 

 Hab. Cayenne. 



92. XYLOCOPA VIRIDIGASTRA. 



Xylocopa viridigastra, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 186. 19. 

 Hab. Cayenne. 



93. XYLOCOPA VIRESCENS. 



Xylocopa virescens, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 186. 18. 

 Hab. Cayenne. 



94. XYLOCOPA LATERALIS. 



Xylocopa lateralis, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 413. 2. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



95. XYLOCOPA TABANIFORMIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Black, the face has a thin griseous 

 pubescence, that on the cheeks dense and hoary ; the flagellum 

 beneath, except the two basal joints, rufo-testaceous. Thorax 

 smooth and shining on the disk, the centre of which is sparingly 



Eubescent, on the sides and beneath it is dense and hoary ; the 

 igs have a similar pubescence, the scopa above slightly ochra- 

 ceous, beneath black \ the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. 

 Abdomen, the basal segment has a griseous pubescence, the in- 

 termediate segments have on each side a white marginal fringe, 

 the fifth segment has on its lateral margins a white fringe, and 

 the sixth is fringed with black ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures 

 dark fuscous, the tegulse ferruginous. 



Hab. Mexico. 



96. XYLOCOPA VIRGINICA. B.M. 



Apis Virginica, Drury, III. Exot. Ins. i. t. 43. f. 1. 



Linn, Mant. Plant, p. 540. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 318. 15. 

 Bombus Virginicus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 346. 14. 



St. Farg. Hym. i. 470. 17. 

 Xylocopa Virginica, Westw. in Drury, IlL Exot. Ins. (1837) i. 



t. 43. f. 1. 

 Hab. Virginia. 



