2. COELIOXYS FULVIFRONS. _C._ nigra, rude punctata, facie pube fulva vestita; alis fuscis cupreo iridescentibus. _Male._ Length 6 lines. Black; the head and thorax with large confluent punctures; the face clothed with fulvous pubescence. Thorax: a stout tooth on each side of the scutellum at its base; wings dark brown with a coppery effulgence, subhyaline at their base; beneath clothed with short cinereous pubescence. Abdomen: elongate, conical; closely punctured, with the apical and basal margins of the segments smooth; the apical segment with a tooth on each side at its base and four at its apex; beneath the margins of the segments fringed with pale pubescence; the apical margin of the fourth segment notched in the middle; the fifth entirely clothed with pale pubescence. _Hab._ Celebes. Fam. SCOPULIPEDES. Gen. ANTHOPHORA, _Latr._ 1. Anthophora zonata, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ i. 955. 19. _Hab._ India, Ceylon, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippine Islands, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Celebes. Gen. XYLOCOPA, _Latr._ 1. Xylocopa fenestrata, _Fabr. Syst. Piez._ p. 339. 6. [Symbol: male]. _Hab._ India, Celebes. 2. Xylocopa aestuans, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 961. 53. _Hab._ India, Java, Singapore, Celebes. 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--8-1/2 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 antennae; 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. _Hab._ Celebes, Philippine Islands.