Xylocopa sinensis u. bomboides. 
smooth and shining a deep depression on each of its lateral 
margins; disk of the thorax very smooth and shining, sparingly 
punctured; wings fuscous, having a bright iridescent coppery 
reflection, the anterior pair have their medial and discoidal cells 
transparent; legs entirely black; posterior tarsi furnished with a 
dense brush of black hair. Abdomen elongate, its disk sparingly 
punctured, it sides densely so thickly pubescent at the sides. — 
Lg. 10 lines (— 21 mm). 
S Black, clothed entirely with fulvous pubescence; face 
has 2 broad yellow stripes extending from the vertex to the 
base of the mandibles, intermediate portion below the antennae 
clothed with black hair; wings subhyaline, slightly clouded 
towards their apical margins, tarsi within are clothed with ferru- 
ginous pubescence. Abdomen, down the centre the pubescence 
is less dense, giving it the appearance of an obscure black line. 
Lg. 9 lines (= 19 mm). 
Chusan. N.-China. 
35. Xylocopa sinensis Sm. 
1854. — Xylocopa Sinensis Smith, $ — Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. II. p. 356 . 
Black, head closely and strongly punctured, the 
margin of the clypeus and a central line, smooth and shining; 
the labrum has a tubercle in the centre; flagellum, except the 
2 basal joints, testaceous beneath; margin of the vertex, disk 
and sides of the thorax and the basal segment of the abdomen 
densely covered with bright yellow pubescence; wings rufo- 
hyaline, their apical margins having a rufo-fuscous cloud, the 
nervures ferruginous. Tibiae and tarsi clothed with bright rufo- 
iulvous pubescence. Abdomen very closely punctured, subopake, 
the apical margins of the Segments very narrowly rufo-piceous; 
the sides of the abdomen fringed with black pubescence, at the 
extreme a little bright ferruginous pubescenee. — Long. 11 lines 
(= 23 mm). 
China (Foo-chow-foo). u 
36. Xylocopa bomboides Sm. 
18/9. Xylocopa bomboides Smith, <3 — Descr. New. Spec. Hymen, p. 124. 
Length 12‘/2 lines. — Black; the clypeus and sides 
of the face, below the antennae, white; the flagellum, except one 
or two of the basal joints, fulvous beneath; eyes large and sub- 
