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56. Xylocopa unicolor Sm. 
I860. — Xylocopa unicolor J Smith Journ. of Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. 
IV. Suppl. p.~ 135. 
1874. — Xylocopa unicolor Ç Smith Trans. Entom. Soc. London p. 274. 
«Nitida, nigra; alis æneo et violaceo splendide micantibus. — 
Long. 9 lines (—19 mm). 
J . Black; flagellum, except the 2 basal joints, testaceous beneath ; 
the clypeus with a transverse shining ridge at its base, its anterior 
margin and a central longitudinal line smooth and shining ; face clo¬ 
thed with black pubescence. Thorax; and legs with black pubescence, 
the middle of the disk of the latter smooth and shining; a central 
impressed line runs from the anterior margin of the prothorax to the 
middle of the mesothorax ; wings dark brown with a violet iridescence 
changing to a green tint at their apex. Abdomen black, shining and 
closely punctured ; the sides fringed with black pubescence towards 
the apex. 
cT — body clothed with yellowish olive pubescence, darkest on 
the abdomen, the sides of which towards the apex are fringed with 
black ; the tibiæ and tarsi have fulvous pubescence ; the posterior tibiæ 
are yellow outside; the antennæ in front and the clypeus yellow, the 
latter with 2 black spots at its base ; the wings fulvo-hyaline and iri¬ 
descent. 
Amboyna. 
In both the sexes of this species the 2. submarginal cell is obso¬ 
lete ; in cT a trace of the first transverse cubital nervure is perceptible ; 
this nervure will frequently be found more or less obliterated in diffe¬ 
rent species of this genus. 
The c? closely resembles that of X. aestuans .» 
Mir liegen j von Gorom, Ceram, W.-Buru vor, (Kühn leg.) ferner 
von Palawan (Doherty) ; c? von Ceram, Batchian (Kükenthal leg.) und 
Ambon (Semon leg.) 
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57. Anthophora zonata L. 
1758. — Anthophora zonata Linné, Syst. Nat. ed. X. v. 1. p. 576. 
1841. — Anthophora zonata cf ? Lepelletier Hist. nat. Ins. Hym. II. p. 25. 
? • Nigra, clypeo albido maculis duabus magnis quadratis nigris, 
labro albo punctis duobus baseos parvis nigris; caput rufo-villosum, 
pilis verticis intermixtis nigris; thorax supra et lateribus rufo, subtus 
albido-villosus ; abdominis segmenta supra, primo rufo nigroque inter¬ 
mixtis subvilloso, secundo, tertio quartoque nigro subvillosis, horum 
