FAMILI^. (Jpis. ^*. d. 1. «.) I89 



Wood much masticated. Each cell is rather more 

 than half an inch in length, and about three tenths 

 of an inch in diameter : the partitions which sepa- 

 rate the cells from each other are made of the same 

 material, and are about a line in thickness. The 

 pipe runs nearly pai'allel with the sides of the piece 

 of wood in which it is bored, making an angle 

 where it begins and where it ends, and having its 

 entrance on the opposite side to its exit. Probably 

 the inhabitants of the lowermost cells make their 

 ■way out at the exit, and those of the uppermost at 

 the entrance (c). To this subdivision belong ^pis 

 Hlspanica, pilipes, limaculata, vulpina, quadri- 

 maculata, furcata, rotundata (d), and Andrena 

 strigosa of Panzer (e). 



* *. d. 2. ^. (/) 



H. F. A. Corpus oblongum ; Capite trunco 

 angustiori, lato, rotundato, depresso ; Prohoscide 

 breviuscula, conica, recta, fornicata ; Lingua brevi, 

 rectiuscula ; Tuho apice tridentato, dentibus asqua- 

 libus ; Laciniis exterioribus articulo ultimo brevi ; 

 ValvuUs apice scmicordato, acuto, corneo, conca- 

 vo, basis vertice eroso, sinu pectinato; Palpis ex- 

 terioribus sexarticulatis, interioribus biarticulatis ; 

 Facie inaequali ; Slemmatibus in triangulo, infra 

 verticem sitis ; Oculis distantibus, prominulis ; 



(c) Apisfurcata makes tliese nests. {d) Panzer Fn. Ins. 

 Germ. luit. n. 55. t. 6,, S, 1/. 11. 56. t. Q, /, 8, 9. {e) Ibid. 



n.64. t. 16. (/) Tab. 11, ^^■. d. 2. 8. lig. 19, 20, 21. 



Jpis, Fab. Lati-. 



