Nearly related as this genus is to Anthophora (pi. 357), 

 there are most important differences in their trophi, antennae, 

 and legs; but the easiest means of distinguishing them will be 

 by examining the 3rd joint of the antennae, which is shorter 

 than the first in Saropoda. 



1. S. bimaculata Panz. Kirby 2. 286. 63 — Curt. Brit. Ent. 



pi. 361. cT- 

 The 31st of July I observed the females at the back of the 

 Isle of Wight, flying about and alighting upon the plant 

 figured in the plate: they made a loud and shrill buzzing with 

 their short wings. On the 15th of August I found a male 

 and many females sleeping in the same flowers, it having 

 rained several days previousl3\ A few days before I saw both 

 sexes flying over barren and heathy places and entering their 

 burrows. 



2. S. \u\pma Pa7iz. 56. 6. ^?—Kir. 2. 290. 65. 



Black, clothed with pale soft hairs ; thorax flavescent ; seg- 

 ments of the abdomen with the margins pale; intermediate 

 thighs large and clavate. Kirby. — Male with the basal joint 

 of antenna beneath, the face below, and labrum ochreous, 2 

 black triangular spots on the clypeus, and 2 at the base of the 

 labrum. 



I think I took one the beginning of August at Bognor, flying 

 about a felled tree. 



3. S. rotundata Panz. 56. 9. S- — Kir. 2. 291. 66. 

 Clothed with soft greyish hair ; mouth yellow ; abdominal 



segments with the margins subrufous; thorax of the female 

 blackish, of the male fulvous. Kirby. 



July, on the flowers of Erica in a sunny sand-pit near 

 Coombe-wood, Mr. Kirby; and Mr. Newman in his garden 

 at Deptford. 



4. S. subglobosa Kir. 2. 295. 68. 



Black, slightly clothed with whitish hairs ; abdomen sub- 

 globose. Kirby. — Obs. In my specimen the edges of the abdo- 

 minal segments are somewhat ochreous. 



Taken by Mr. Haworth. 



5. S. furcataPan^. 56. 8. S -—Kir. 2. 288. 64. ; tab.ll.f. 5^6. 

 Female black, clothed with griseous pubescence, anterior 



part of face, labrum and anus, clothed with ferruginous hair. 

 Male black, clothed with cinereous pubescence ; anterior por- 

 tion of face and labrum yellow, apex of abdomen furcate. 

 Kirby. 



Tliis species is rare in Suffolk, but more frequent near 

 London. We learn from Mr. Kirby that it nidificates in a 

 manner similar to Apis violacea, in pieces of putrescent wood. 

 — vide V. I. p. 188. 



The plant is Cenlaurca Scabiosa (Great Knapweed). 



