3. Xylocopa Dejeanii, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 209. 59.
Hab. Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes.
4. Xylocopa collaris, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 189. 26.
Hab. India, Sumatra, Malacca, Borneo, Celebes.
5. Xylocopa nobilis. X. nigra, pube nigra induta; abdominis basi pube flava, apice lateritio.
Female. Length 11 lines. Black; a narrow line of pale fulvous pubescence on the margin of the thorax in front, a patch of the same colour on each side of the metathorax, and the basal segment of the abdomen covered above with similar pubescence; the apical margin of the third and fourth segments, and the fifth and six entirely, covered with bright brick-red pubescence; the wings black, with coppery iridescence.
Hab. Celebes.
Fam. SOCIALES.
1. Apis zonata. A. nigra, thoracis lateribus dense ochraceo pubescentibus; alis fumatis; abdomine nitido, segmentis secundo tertio quartoque basi niveo pubescentibus.
Worker. Length 8—8½ lines. Black; the head and thorax opake, the abdomen shining; the clypeus smooth and shining, the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath; the anterior margin of the labrum narrowly, and the apex of the mandibles, ferruginous; the face with a little fine short cinereous pubescence above the insertion of the antennæ; the vertex with long black pubescence; the eyes covered with short black pubescence. Thorax: the sides with ochraceous pubescence; wings smoky, the superior pair darkest at their anterior margin beyond the stigma. Abdomen: a snow-white band at the basal margin of the second, third, and fourth segments, the bands continued beneath, but narrower.