FIELD BOOK OF INSECTS. 



wing-margin; abdomen black with pale bands of scale- 

 like hair. Neopasites has two submarginal cells; marginal 

 cell very obtuse; maxillary palpi 6- jointed. 



ANTHOPHORID^E 



These are moderately large, hairy, pollen-collecting 

 bees. The clypeus is protuberant and, in males, usually 

 yellow. The males often have long antennas. The tongue 

 is elongate and slender; the labrum large, free, and convex; 

 eyes extending to, or nearly to, the base of the mandibles; 

 marginal cell rarely longer than the first two submarginal 

 cells united; first recurrent vein not meeting the first 

 transverse cubital; first portion of the subdiscoidal vein 

 distinctly longer than the third portion of the discoidal; 

 stigma not well developed. There are usually 3 submargi- 

 nal cells. 



In Anthophora (Anthophoridas in a limited sense) the 

 marginal cell is not bent away from the front wing-mar- 

 gins; first discoidal cell longer than the marginal cell; 

 third submarginal cell not narrower above than beneath. 

 In our other bees of this group the first discoidal cell is 

 not as long as, or scarcely longer than, the marginal cell, 

 which is bent away from the front. 



In Melitoma (pads between the tarsal claws; tongue 

 reaching the base of the abdomen; first and third sub- 

 marginal cells of about equal length) and Emplior (no such 

 pads; first submarginal cells longer than the third, which 

 is narrowed towards the marginal) the vertex is not 

 crested; the males' antennas are only slightly, or not at 

 all, longer than the female's and the clypeus is not pale. 

 Of Melitoma we have only taurea (abdomen cross-banded 

 with white), and of Enfplior only bombiformis (Plate XCIII) 

 or, in the North, its variety juscojubatus (thorax evenly 

 covered with pale hairs ; abdomen black except, sometimes, 

 for scattered, pale pubescence on the first segment). 

 These genera have been put in a separate family, Emphori- 

 das. 



Most of the Eastern Anthophorids have been separated 

 off as Euceridas. They differ from the Emphoridae in 

 having the vertex raised. The male's clypeus is more or 



444 



