Xylqcopa nitidiventris. 
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— Antennae nigrae; caput et thorax nigra, nigro- 
villosa; abdomen nigrum, supra nigro-subvillosum, margine nigro- 
ciliatum, subtus ferrugineo villosulum; pedes nigri, tibiis tarso- 
rumque articulo 1. ferrugineo -villosis; alae fuscae, violaceo 
nitentes. — Long. 9 liglies (= 20 V 3 mm.) 
Tlemcen. (Algeria.) 
Rapportee par mon Als, officier superieur au 2. chasseurs 
d’Alrique, de l’expedition contre Abd-el-Kader.“ (Lepeletier.) 
Von Xylocopa amedei besitze ich 2 das 1 von Algeria 
und das andere von Jagnob-Ravat (Turkestan) durch Morawitz. 
Die dichte, rothbraune Behaarung der Tarsen II und III lassen 
die Art leicht erkennen. 
17. Xylocopa nitidiventris Sm. 
1878. — Xylocopa nitidiventris Smith, ^ — Scient. Res. 2 d Yarkand. Miss. 
p. 7; Tab. F. 10. 
1880. — Xylocopa Amedei var. ? nitidiventris F. Morawitz, — Bull. acad. 
sc. St. Petersbourg XXVI. p. 387. 
— Nigra, thorace supra pube flava decorata, tibiarum 
posticarum apicibus tarsisque omnibus pube ferruginea vestitis; 
alis nigro-fuscis iridescenlibus. — Long. 7 J / 2 lines (= 16 mm). 
Black, pubescence on the head black; very closely punc- 
turecl 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 1. 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, apical margins ol the Seg¬ 
ments are narrowly ferruginous, the 2 subapical ones being 
fringed with bright ferruginous hairs. — Long. 7 ! / 2 lines. 
Im Mai, neighbourhood of Yarkand.“ 
Ost-Turkestan. 
= X. amedei — var. mit gelbroth behaartem Thorax! — 
Nach Morawitz: 
Wahrscheinlich nur eine Varietät der X. amedei Lep., im 
Tjan-Schan am Kasch (Regel), am unteren Kungess am Flusse 
Zanma (Prshewalsky); sonst noch bei Yarkand. (Asia centr.) 
