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finely and less closely than tlie first, more or less stining, 

 and clothed with short pale hairs, each with a yellow apical 

 band ; second very convex and swollen, three times as wide 

 as the first, with a yellow transverse spot on each side 

 near the base ; femora black, yellow at the extreme apex ; 

 tibiaa and tarsi yellow. 



L. 13-15 mm. 



Local. Chobham, Woking. Blackwater and Parley 

 Heath, Hants ; Sandhurst, Sunning Hill, Weybridge, 

 {Smith). Bournemouth and Stowborough Heath {Uothiicy). 



AXTHOPHILA. 



This section is chiefly composed of the bees or Aculeata 

 that store up pollen and honey for their larvae, but it also 

 includes certain Aculeata that live with them in the same 

 nests or lay their eggs in the same cells, and which are 

 known as inquilines or messmates. Amongst them are 

 found the Hive Bee, the Humble Bees, and their messmates, 

 which are social in their habits, the other genera are solitary. 

 In general structure the Anthophila vary very little, and 

 in this respect are very unlike the Fossores, also there is 

 such a distinct family likeness between them that it is 

 rarely that even a beginner can doubt as to whether one 

 of his captures is a bee or not, although such doubts 

 might exist over a Sphecodes or Prosoiris, the foi-mer being 

 coloured like a Tachytes or a Gorytes tumidus, and the 

 latter bearing a slight resemblance to a black Crahro. The 

 species as a rule are densely hairy, which of course gives 

 them at once an Anthopliiloxis character, but this is not so 

 always; many of the inquilines, as well as Sphecodes and 

 Prosopis being nearly glabrous ; the cibarial arrangements 

 of the Anthophila also as a rule distinguish them from the 

 other Hymenoptera, as the tongue is generally pointed and 

 often very elongate, as well as the maxilloB, &c., but here 

 again these characters are not co-extensive with the section, 



