Apidae — Xoiiiadinae I. Gattung Crocisa Jiir. 



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1909 Cr. emarginata Lep., Friese, Ann. ]Mus. Xat. Hung. VII, 



p. 262. 263 (Tabelle). 

 1912 Cr. nitidiiJa F. Cockerell, Froc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, 37, 



p. 595. 



1912 Cr. emaroinata Lep.. Cockerell, Froc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales 



XXXVl! p. 167. 

 1919 Cr. decora Sm., Cockerell, Froc. Xat. Mus. 55, p. 183. 

 1919 Cr. lilacina Cockerell, Froc* Xat. Mus. 55, p. 184. • 



Hierher als Synonym: Crocisa lilacina Cock.: 



,,Male. Lengtii about 12 mm. Robust, witb blue markings; 

 chpeus prominent, finely punctured; sides of face (extending 

 halfway up front), supraclypeal area and upper and lateral 

 margins of clypeus all covered with blue hair; cheeks with blue 

 hair; occiput with a f ringe of hair, black in middle and white 

 at sides; e^-es greatly broadened below; mesothorax anteriorlv 

 with a pair of transverse bright blue patches, partly on pro- 

 thoiax;-the usual four mesothoracic spots, short median band, 

 and Spots above tegulae, also blue, but the posterior spots nearh' 

 obsolete (rubbed off?); scutellum ^^'-like, with rather aparse 

 minute punctures, no light hair on disk, but a little white hair 

 from beneath notch; tubercles fringed with reddish fuscous hair; 

 Upper part of pleura with light blue hair, lower part with black. 

 but nearly bare and strongh' punctured; tegulae black with 

 a large ferruginous mark; wings brown, ^^ith hyaline Spaces; 

 anterior and middle tibiae blue on outer side; but bind tibiae 

 with only basal half blue; tarsi dark, without blue; markings 

 of abdomen delicate lilac-blue, not metallic; first segment blue 

 right across, the bind margin and a loof-shaped median mark 

 black, this marking as in C. caeruleifrons Kirby, except that 

 the blue is not Interrupt ed basally; segment s 2 to 5 with broad 

 blue bands, rather widely interrupted in middle, sixth \nth some 

 pale hair at sides; apex with two short teeth. 



Buitenzorg, Java, March, 1909 (Br\-ant and Palmer). 



Type.-Cat. Xo. 20717, U. S. X. M. ' 



Resembles C. caeruleifrons Kirby, but differs by the blue 

 at base of abdomen not interrupted; band on second segment 

 more widely interrupted; bind tibiae with less blue, and gener al 

 appearance less brilliant. It is much too large for C. basalis 

 Friese and otherwise different." 



1804. ,,Atra thorace abdomineque coeruleo variegatis. Paulo 

 minor M. histrione. Antennae nigrae, mandibulae valde por- 

 rectea incurvae, in medio unidentatae, atrae, caput nigrum, fronte 

 late coerulea, thorax ater. nitidus, antice imprimis coeruleo varie- 

 gatus, scutellum latum, planum, emarginatum, atrum, imma- 

 culatum. Abdomen conicum, atrum, nitidum, segmento 1. 

 fascia baseos, reliquis maculis lateralibus laete coeruleis. Pedes atri, 

 tibiis macula magna baseos coerulea, alea obscure coerulescentes. 



Amboina." 



Archiv für Natnrgescbichte 11 , tt r.. 



19-21. A. 1. l- Heft 



