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Xylocopa pietifrons. 
the antennae in front and the flagellum beyond the 2. joint 
beneath, yellowish-white; the eyes are large and approximating; 
anterior and intermediate tarsi vvith rufofulvous pubescence, 
posterior tibiae liave at their apex a projecting somewhat 
quadrate appendage; wings in both sexes are fuscous, not dark 
and have a purple and coppery iridescence. — Long. 9—10 
lines (= 19—21 mm). 
China. Ning-po-foo. 
This species resembles X. circumvolans of Japan, of whish 
it may be a variety; it differs Irom it in having pale pubescence 
on its tarsi and in not having any yellow pubescence on the 
abdomen.“ 
Xylocopa appendiculata liegt mir in 3 von Shanghai (April 
1891) und 1 c von Tientsin (Weber) vor, im Mus. Wien 2 3 
2 c von China (Haas). 
Die gelbe Behaarung vom Scheitel und Segment 1. lassen 
die Art leicttf von circumvolans unterscheiden. 
34. Xylocopa pietifrons Sm. 
1852, — Xylocopa pietifrons Smith, $ $ — Trans. Entom. Soc. London 
( 2 ) II. P. 2 p. 42. 
1874. — Xylocopa pietifrons Smith, & $ - Trans. Entom. Soc. London 
p. 275. 
„9. Black, clothed with black pubescence and shining; 
the head closely punctured; thorax more finely and sparingly 
so and rounded behind; wings fusco-hyaline towards the base, 
darkei beyond the enclosed cells and also ki the marginal and 
submarginal cells, with a golden iridescence toward the base 
and purplish towards the apex. — Long. 10 lines (— 21 mm). 
3 clothed with fulvous yellow pubescence and has a 
longitudinal, obscure, darkish line on the thorax and abdomen; 
on the lace a line of black pubescence, a broad yellow stripe 
on each side of the lace, which extends to the hüjder margin 
of the vertex. — Long 9 lines (= 19 mm). 
^ is narrower than the species of the genus usually 
are.“ — 
North-China, Java.“ 
Ist im 9 vielleicht--der spien di dipennis Rits. sehr ähnlich? — 
"Q- Black, head as wide as the thorax, the pubescence 
very short and thinly scattered; the upper margin of the elypeus 
