j^^ FAMIUM. {Mclltta. **.t.) 



pletely covers the cell where her eggs are de- 

 posited (z)." 



It is pity Reaumur did not give a more minute 

 description of this ingenious little animal. He only 

 informs his readers that it is a small bee, more 

 hairy than ^pis mellifica, with a body proportion- 

 ably shorter, but nearly of the same colour. His 

 figure conveys no adequate idea of it (A). In my 

 frequent walks in the corn fields in this neighbour-. 

 hood, I have never observed the poppy petals with 

 portions taken from them in. the manner he has 

 described. 



The English species of this family are extremely 

 numerous, and I have not hitherto been able to 

 discover any clue for a natural subdivision of it: 

 the last forty species are distinguished by white 

 abdominal fasciae. To this family belong Panzer's 

 Andrena succincta, hirtipesy equestris, plumipes, 

 j4ustriaca^ lucida, nitida, derasa, vaga, aterrimay 

 Jlavipes, bicolor and htemorrhoidalis \ and his jipis 

 pilipes, vestita, farfarisequa, varians, dumetorumj 

 atra, albilahris^ and Sphegoides{l). 



APIS *. a. (m) 



H.F.A. Corpus oblongiusculum, subpilosum; 

 Capi te trunco paulo latiori; Lingua acuta. ; Tuho 



(i) Reaum. ubi supra, Mem. 5. p. 139— 149. Tab. 13. fig. 

 i— 11. {k) Ibid. fig. 5. (/) Fn. Germ. Init. n. 7. 1. 10. 

 n.46.t. 15, 17. n. 46. t. 16. n.53. t. IQ. n. 56. t. 1,1. n.64.t. 

 17—20. n. Q5. t, 19, 20. n. 7. t; 13. n. 55, t. 9. 14. n. 5Q. t. 12 

 i~14. 23, 24. (w) Tab. 4. Apis. *. a. 



subconicO; 



