224 BRITISH BEES. 



I happened to be collecting near the spot on the day of 

 our gracious Queen's coronation, when I captured mul- 

 titudes of a splendid large Allantus, entirely new to the 

 British fauna, and a choice addition to collections. This 

 ground had been hunted at all seasons through all bo- 

 tanical and entomological time, and neither had the 

 mustard plant been found there before nor had the in- 

 sect. Whence did they both come ? These observations 

 have certainly nothing to do with the subject in hand, 

 beyond suggesting that with untiring energy in the 

 vicinities indicated where Macropis has been already 

 found it may possibly turn up in abundance. 



Genus 8. DASYPODA, Latreille. 



MELITTA ** c, partly, Kirby. 



(Plate V. fig. 3 c? ? .) 



Gen. Char. : HEAD transverse; vertex glabrous ; ocelli 

 placed in a curved line ; antennae short, filiform, genicu- 

 lated, the scape thickly bearded with long hair and 

 scarcely half the length of the flagellum ; face and cly- 

 peus densely pubescent, the latter slightly convex ; labrum 

 transverse, linear, slightly rounded in front ; mandibles 

 arcuate, bidentate, the teeth acute and robust ; cibarial 

 apparatus moderately long ; tongue long, very acute, and 

 fringed with delicate hair ; paruglossffi about one-third 

 the length of the tongue, very slender, and acute ; the 

 labial palpi inserted upon the junction of the labium, 

 very slender, filiform, of uniform thickness, the joints 

 subclavate, the basal joint considerably the longest, the 

 second joint also long, the two terminal joints much 

 shorter and decreasing in length; labium about the 



