32 mr. r. CAinsRon oi» thf. r.Uav 7, 



This species looks not unlike, al first sight, a small example of 

 R . fin vom argino 'turn, but is abundantly distinct: e. g. the sides of tin- 

 median segment do not angularly project.] 



A p i d .1:. 



[XyLOC'OTA MALAYAN A, sp. 1). 



Nigra, thoraa supra abdominisque /><isi denst fulvo-pilosis ; torsi* 

 anterioribus longe atbo-pilosis; alls fusco-violaccis. 3 . 



Long. 25-26 mm. 



Hah. .Singapore. 



Antenna; black; the scape and the fourth and following joints 

 rufous beneath ; the scape is only rufous in the middle. Head 

 distinctly narrower than the thorax ; black, closely punctured ; the 

 vertex behind is covered with yellowish-fulvous pubescence ; the 

 sides of the face to the middle of the clypeus with shorter white 

 pubescence ; the hair on the upper part of. the outer orbits is black, 

 on the lower piceous. In the middle of the clypeus is a pale yellow 

 streak, which reaches near to the apex, which is smooth and shining 

 and is clear!) separated ; below it is fringed with rufous hair. The 

 mandibles are widely grooved above, narrowly below ; the tooth is 

 long and becomes gradually narrowed towards the apex ; there is 

 no subapical or upper toolh ; the space above the lower tooth is 

 roundly curved. The entire upper part of the thorax is thickly 

 covered with bright yellow pubescence ; the pro- and metapleura? 

 are shining and only sparsely haired ; the mesopleura; black, closely 

 punctured and thickly covered with black, mixed with pale, hair ; 

 the hair on the breast is much shorter ; the apex of the metapleura; 

 may be piceous. The four anterior tarsi are thickly fringed with 

 very long white hair ; the hair on the four front tibia? is black, 

 white on the top in front and on the apex behind ; on the posterior 

 legs the hair is entirely black. The hair on the basal segment of 

 the abdomen is yellow, passing gradually on the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments into olive colour : on the other segments it is black. The 

 basal ventral segments are more or less rufous ; the sides of the 

 2nd segment bear yellowish hair ; those of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th 

 white, the others black hair ; the hair on the last segments is long 

 and black. The wings are uniformly deep fuscous-violaceous ; the 

 stigma and nervures are deep black. 



The ocelli are in a curve • . • ; the lander are separated from 

 each other by about the same distance they are from the eyes.J 



[Xylocopa ceyloxica, sp. n. 



Dense ferrugineo-pilosa, thorace supra abdominisque host olivaceo- 

 pilosis ; alts fnsco-violaceis. 6. 



Long. 27-28 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



This species closely resembles X. rvfescens, but is more slenderly 

 built; the head is narrower compared with the mesothorax, it wants 

 entirely the yellow markings on the face and clypeus ; the hair on 



