:g22.] C. Dover : Notes on Bees. 87 



X. carinata. Meade-Waldo has shown ' that Cameron's X. bomba- 

 ycnsis is a synonym of this species. 



Xylocopa amethystina Fabr. 



Bengal, Chota Nagpur, Bihar and Sind are not recorded by 

 Bingham. This is an apparently widely distributed species in 

 India. 



Xlyocopa bryorum Fabr. 



The Museum has specimens from Assam and the Andamans. 



Xylocopa collaris Lepel. 



This species is found in most parts of India, Burma and 

 Ce3'lon and is known from Borneo, Sumatra. Java, the Philippines, 

 Celebes and Malacca and from the Palaearctic Region. 



Xylocopa tranquebarica Fabr. 



1804. Bombus tranquebaricus, Fabr., Syst. Piez., p. 343. 



191 7. Xylocopa tranquebarica, Cockerel!, Philipp. Journ.Sci. XII, p. 



346. 

 1921. Xylocopa rnfescens, Dover, Rec. hid. Mus. XXII, p. 390. 



Found in Sikkim, Bengal, South India, Burma, Andamans, 

 Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines. There are three ex- 

 amples in the Indian Museum under the name ferruginea which I 

 think really belong to this species. Prof. Cockerel! has shown that 

 the more generally used name rufescens will have to be sunk in 

 favour of tranquebarica. He has also noted its crepuscular habits. 



Xylocopa cacrulea Fabr. 



This beautiful species has been found in Sikkim, Burma, 

 Ceylon, Annam, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and New Caledonia. 



Xylocopa flavonigrescens Smith. 



1918. Xylocopa flavonigrescens, Cockerell, Entomologist, LI, p. 104. 

 The Zoological Survey possesses examples from Sikkim, Sylhet, 



Tenasseritn, Ton-Kin and Malacca." Meade-Waldo, basing his 

 opinion on the male, thought Cameron's malayana (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond. 1901, p. 32) to be the same as this species, but Prof. 

 Cockerell notes that a female from the island of Penang is the 

 same as X. malayana. 



Xylocopa nitldiventris, X. dubiosa and X. convexa Smith. 

 1878. Smith, Scient. Res. 2nd. Yark. Miss. (Hym.) pp. 7 and 8. 



The types of these species, described from the neighbourhood 

 of Yangihissar in Yarkand, are in the collection of the Indian 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XIV, p. 404, 1914. 



