Xylocopa convexa u. fenestrata. 
208 
(Morice, Schmiedeknecht); im Mus. Wien 2 cJ £ von 
Aegypten (Natter 1858). 
Africa, Syria. 
6 . Xylocopa convexa Sm. 
1878. — Xylocopa convexa Smith, $ — Scient. Res. 2^ Yarkand Miss. 
p. 8 n. 18. 
„c. — Nitida, nigra; alis nigro-fuscis violaceo splendide mi- 
cantibus; abdomine convexo. — Long. 9—10 lines (= 19—21 mm). 
Black and shining; head not closely but rathet* finely 
punctured; front with short dense black pubescence; margins 
of the elypeus raised and shining and with a central shining 
carina; flagellum, except the basal joint, obscurely fulvous 
beneath. I he disk of the mesothorax and the base of the scu- 
tellum smooth, shining and impunctate; the sides, beneath and 
the legs, with black pubescence; wings with a beautiful blue, 
violet and green iridescence. Abdomen very convex, witli fine 
distant punctures; the sides and apex with black pubescence. 
Kugiar, 90 miles south of Yarkand, Mai und Juni.“ 
7. Xylocopa fenestrata Fabr. 
1798. — Apis fenestrata Fabricius, 8 — Suppl. entom. System, p. 273. 
1804. — Xylocopa fenestrata Fabricius, $ Syst. Piez. p. 339. 
1807. — Xylocopa fenestrata Klug, Magaz. f. Insectenk. VI. p. 226. 
1841. — Xylocopa fenestrata Lepeletier, $ — Hist. nat. Insect. Hymen. II 
p. 184 [excl. $]. 
1874. — Xylocopa fenestrata Smith, d ? — Trans. Entom Soc. London 
p. 269. 
1879. — Xylocopa fenestrata Taschenberg, $ — Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Naturw. 
LII. p. 577. 
F a b ricius sagt: 
„Atra, alis violaceis, basi hyalinis. 
India or., Mus. Daldorff. 
Nimis affinis X. violaccae, at nunquam eundem nidum 
cohabitant.“ 
' Smith: 
— Shining black, finely and not very closely punc¬ 
tured; disk of the metathorax impunctate; head as wide as the 
thorax, face rather strongly and very closely punctured; the 
frontal tubercle prominent and the lateral margins of the elypeus 
slightly elevated; the flagellum of the antennae, except the 3 
basal joints, testaceous beneath, the wings dark brown-black, 
