HYMENOPTERA. 
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15. Axthophora senex. 
Mas. — A. atra,pallide villosa, facie antice labroque Jiavis; pedibus intermediis elongatis. 
Black ; the face as high as the insertion of the antennae, the labrum, and scape of the 
antennae in front, yellow ; the pubescence on the head pale fulvous, whitish on the clypeus. 
Thorax pubescent ; the pubescence faintly yellowish, that on the legs long and ragged ; 
the tarsi testaceous, except the basal joint ; the intermediate legs elongate, the fifth joint 
densely fringed with black pubescence, forming a thick brush ; the apical joint of the tarsi 
rufo-piceous. Abdomen thinly covered with pale pubescence ; the margins of the segments 
pale testaceous. Male, length 5J lines. 
Sab. — Neighbourhood of Yarkand and Yangiliissar. Taken in April. 
This genus is cosmopolitan, not less than one hundred and fifty species are known ; of 
these twelve are from India. 
16. Nylocopa nitidiventris, 1 Eig. 10. 
Eemina. — X. nigra, thorace supra pube Jlava decor aia, tibiarum posticarum apicibus tarsis- 
que omnibus pube ferruginea vestitis, alls nigro-fuscis iridescentibus. 
Black ; the pubescence on the head black ; very closely punctured and opaque. Thorax, 
clothed above with bright pale yellowish pubescence ; on the sides, beneath, and on the 
femora and tibiae, it is black ; that at the apex of the posterior tibiae and on all the tarsi, 
bright f ulvo-ferruginous ; that on the anterior tarsi mixed with a little black on the first 
joint ; wings fuscous, palest towards their base, and having a violet iridescence in certain 
lights. Abdomen very smooth and shining, and also very convex, being subglobose; 
beneath, the apical margins of the segments are narrowly ferruginous, the two sub-apical 
ones being fringed with bright ferruginous hairs. Eemale, length 7-g- lines. 
Sab. — Taken in May, in the neighbourhood of Yarkand. 
17. Xylocopa dubiosa, Eig. 9. 
Mas. — X. nigra, f ulco-pubescente ; facie antice labioque Jiavis ; abdomine ovato, con- 
vexiusculo , segmentormn marginibus fulvo fascialis. 
Black; the head, thorax, and the base of the abdomen densely clothed with fulvous 
pubescence ; the face below 7 the insertion of the antenna; and the labrum, yellow ; the 
anterior margin of the latter black; the tarsi ferruginous; wings fulvo- hyaline, slightly 
fuscous towards their apical margins ; the nervures ferruginous, the costal nervure blackish. 
Abdomen ovate, truncate at the base, convex, sinning and finely punctured; the apical 
margins of the segments with a narrow fringe of fulvous pubescence, more or less interrupted 
in the middle ; the sixth and seventh segments covered with fulvous pubescence. Male, 
length 7 1 lines. Probably the male of X. nitidiventris. 
Taken in April, at Yangiliissar, Eastern Turkestan. 
1 Represented on the plate as AT. dubiosa • ? 
