HYMENOPTEHA. 
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15. Anthophoea senex. 
Mas.— A. atra^pallide villosa, facie antice lahroque flavis; pedihus intermediis elongatis. 
Black; tlie face as kigh. as the insertion of the antennae, the lahrnm, 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 5| lines. 
Sah. —^Neighbourhood of Yarkand and Yangihissar. Taken in April. 
This genus is cosmopolitan, not less than one hundred and fifty species are known; of 
these twelve are from India. 
16. Xylocopa nitidivexteis, ^ Eig. 10. 
Eemina.— X. nigra, thorace supra puhe flava decorata, tibiarum posticarum apicibus tat^sis- 
que omnibus pube ferruginea vestitis, alis 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 fulvo-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 suhglohose; 
beneath, the apical margins of the segments are narrowly ferruginous, the two suh-apical 
ones being fringed with bright ferruginous hairs. Eemale, length lines. 
Hab. —Taken in May, in the neighbourhood of Yarkand. 
17. Xylocopa debiosa, Eig. 9. 
Mas.— X. nigra, fulm-puhescente ; facie antice labioque flams ; abdomine ovato, con- 
vexiusculo, segmentorum marginibus fulvo fasciatis. 
Black; the head, thorax, and the base of the abdomen densely clothed with fulvous 
pubescence; the face below the insertion of the antennae 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, shining 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^ lines. Probably the male of X. nitidiventris. 
Taken in April, at Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. 
^ Eepresented on the plate as X . duhiosa - $ 
