Xylocopa appendiculata. 
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jaunes. Ailes fortement enfumees ä reflet violace. — Long. 
20—25 mm. 
3- — Semblable; seulement le chaperon et la base des 
antennes en dessous — jaune d’ocre clair; le vertex garni de 
poils noirs; metatarses de tous les pieds, en haut, garni de poils 
noirs et en bas, de poils longs roux clairs. Les cuisses des pieds 
posterieurs gonflees en dessous pourvues d’une crete qui se 
termine par un tubercule (Fig. 4.), et leurs jambes, ä son extremite 
pres de la jonction avec le metatarse, du cote interne portent 
une appendice applatie. — Long. 21— 22 1 / 2 mill. 
Japon, Jokohama.“ 
Wohl dasselbe wie circunivolans Sm! — 
33. Xylocopa appendiculata Sm. 
1852. — Xylocopa appendiculata Smith, ^ $ — Trans. Entom. Soc. London 
(2) II. 2. p. 41. 
1874. — Xylocopa appendiculata Smith, $ $ — Trans. Entom. Soc. London 
p. 272.- 
„o. — Black, antennae slightly piceous beneath; thorax, 
above and on the sides clothed with bright yellow pubescence; 
wings fuscous, darkest towards their apical margins and having 
a bright prismatic reflection; abdomen punctured and fringed 
at the apex with black hair. — Long.? 
3- — Black, clypeus, scape’of the antennae in front and 
the apical joints beneath, yellowish white; thorax above and on 
the sides, clothed with bright yellow pubescence; wings as in 
the g; anterior tarsi fringed with fulvous hair; posterior tibiae 
have at their apex a somewhat oblong projecting appendage. 
Abdomen punctured, basal segment (1.) clothed with bright 
yellow pubescence; apex fringed with long black hairs. — Long? 
Near Ning-po-foo. 
N.-China.“ 
„9. — Black, thorax above and at the sides with bright 
yellow pubescence; on the face and thorax beneath it is sooty- 
black; there is also a little yellow on the hinder margin of the 
vertex; abdomen shining and covered with shallow punctures; 
sides and apex fringed with black pubescence. — 
3 — similarly coloured; it differs in having the yellow 
pubescence continued on to the basal segment of the abdomen; 
clypeus or spot at the base of the mandibles, scape of 
