MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



961 



No. XXVII— A NOTE ON CARPENTER-BEES IN THE SOCIETY'S 



COLLECTION. 



Through the kindness of Mr. R. A. Spence, the Honorary Sscretary of the 

 Society, I have had the opportunity of examining all the Carpenter-bees 

 {Xylocopa) in the collection. As the material sent me is not without interest 

 I have thought that the following tabular hst would be useful, especially as the 

 remarks on distribution, in many cases, add much to the habitat as given by 

 Bingham ; they are based mainly on the examination of the large collection of 

 Xylocopas in the Indian Museum. The species mentioned in this note are 

 described in Bingham's well-known volume on Hymenoptera in the Fauna 

 of British India Series. The collection contains two interesting species 

 collected by Mr. S. H. Prater in Castle Rock, which, if new, will be described 

 later in this Journal. 



Genus — Xylocopa, 

 Latr. 



latipes (Drury) 



tenuiscapa, Westw. 



acutipennis, Smith 



*attenuata, Perez= 

 pictifrons Smith 



aicripennis, Lepel 



dissimilis, Lepel 



fenestratfc (Fab.) 



amethystina (Fab.) 

 iridipennis, Lepel 



oestuans, Linn. 



verticalis, Lepel 

 basalis, Smith 



Represented in Societj^'s 

 Coll. from 



. Upper Tenasserim and 

 Cumbum in the Madura 

 district. 



.Karwar,Bassein (Bombay) 

 and Soccoro in Goa. 



. Katmandu in Nepal 



Previously recorded 

 from 



India, Burma and Ceylon 

 extending to the Malayan 

 sub-region. 



Do. do. 



E. Himalayas, Assam, 



Burma and Nepal. 

 , Indian plains (spai'ingly), 

 Sikhim, Kumaon (com- 

 monly),China, Java, For- 

 mosa and the Malay Pe- 

 ninsula. 

 Indian plains,E.Himalayas, 

 Assam, Sind, Burma, 

 China, Borneo and Cele- 

 bes. 

 .N. W. Provinces, Bombay 

 Presidency, E. Himala- 

 yas, S. India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, China and Java. 

 India, Burma, Ceylon, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Java 

 and Celebes. 

 .Bombay, Castle Rock and Most parts of India and 



Kotagiri. Ceylon. 



.Nasik • .India, Burma, extending 



to the Malay Peninsula, 

 and China. 

 , .Nasik, Andheri, Inana, Most parts of the world. 

 Bassein, Karachi, Castle 

 Rock, Soccoro, Coonoor 

 and Nagercoil 



Lucknow 



.Bombay, Soccoro (Goa), 

 Calcutta, Kotagiri in the 

 Nilgiris,Castle Rock and 

 Nasik, 1,900 feet. 



. Bombay 



.Nasik, Andheri, Karachi, 

 Calcutta and Kathiawar 



.Karwar and Mahablesh- 



.Warzirabad in Punjaub 



Barrackpore, (Bingham), 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 

 (Maidl.). 



Northern India. 



* See Maidl. Ann. Nat.Hofmus, Wien. XXVI, p. 287 and p. 307. 



