A NOTE ON BEES OF THE GENERA XYLOCOPA 

 AND BOMB US IN THE INDIAN MUSEUM. 



By Cedric Dover, F.E.S. 



The accumulation of a large amount of unnamed carpenter- 

 and bumble-bees in the collection of the Zoological Survey of 

 India has led me to attempt their identification ; and, as, though 

 no novelties were among them, my results are not quite without 

 interest, I have drawn up the following short note in the hope 

 that it will prove useful. 



Subfamily XYLOCOPINAE.'' 

 Xylocopa tenuiscapa Westw. 



192 1. Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Dover; Rec. Ind. Mits. XXII, p. 389. 



In the paper quoted I have given references to works which 

 give characters b3' which the female of .Y. latipes and X. tenuiscapa 

 may be readily separated, and I have also quoted Maidl, who re- 

 gards Sichel's albojasciata as the female of this species. " In Bing- 

 ham's description of the male for tibiae read basitarsi " (Cochercll) . 



The Indian Museum possesses a specimen from Tenasserim 

 which is probably a laiipes 2 but differs from it in being much larger 

 (about 37 mm.) and there are two deep dents on either side of the 

 disc of the tnesonotnm, which is smooth and brightly polished. 



Xylocopa acutipennis Smith. 



The Indian Museum has examples from the following locali- 

 ties unnoticed by Bingham : Darjiling District, above Tura in 

 the Garo Hills of Assam, 3500 ft., and the Dawna Hills in Lower 

 Burma, 2000-3000 ft. 



Xylocopa attenuata Perez. 



1852. Xylocopa pictifrons. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. {2) XI, p. 42, $ necc 7 . 

 1897 Xylocopa pictifrons, Bingham. Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 1, p. 533, £ . 

 1901. Xylocopa attenuata, Perez, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux I. XXV (6) 



VI, p. 46, 9. 

 1912. Xylocopa attenuata. Maidl, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien XXVI, 



p. 287. 

 1921. Xylocopa attenuata, Dover, jfonrn. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. XXVII, 



p. g6l, 



The species is found sparingly in the Indian plains, and 

 commonly in Sikkim and Kumaon. It is found also in China, 



1 I have thought it best in this note not to recognise the genus Mesotrichia. 



