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to remove it ; eiglith small, tongue-like, armature with the 

 stipites bifid at the apex ; ? with a dense pollen brush, 

 composed of nearly white hairs at the base, of pale, 

 yellowish-red in the centre, and black at the extreme 

 apex ; legs clothed with golden-brown hairs in both sexes ; 

 (J with the front coxfe spinose, each spine terminating in a 

 pencil of hairs, the anterior femora and tibise pale in front 

 and beneath, the latter pale at the apex, and with a deep 

 semicircular, lateral emargination near the apex outwardly ; 

 anterior tarsi white, much dilated, densely fringed with 

 pale, golden hairs, which are brownish at the extreme 

 apex, second joint with an oblong, brown spot near its 

 lower margin, posterior femora slightly thickened, the 

 posterior tibias very much dilated and curved; tarsi 

 dilated in both sexes, ? with the anterior tibite deeply 

 emai'ginate near the apex outwardly, leg3 otherwise 

 simple. 



L. 14-15 mm. 



Generally distributed along our coasts, and occasionally 

 found inland, but not recorded from Scotland or Ireland ; 

 it occurs in July and August. 



M. WiUughbiella, Kh-hij. — Slightly smaller than the 

 preceding, and differing in the following points : — 



$ with the pubescence less brightly coloured, and that 

 of the abdomen less dense ; mandibles with a small, red 

 spot near the apex beneath ; apical crest of the sixth 

 dorsal segment more deeply and widely notched, and some- 

 times denticulate at the sides, and without a central fovea ; 

 seventh segment just visible, and armed with a central 

 tooth, seen through the emargination of the sixth, sixth 

 ventral segment angularly produced in the centre of its 

 wing, as well as laterally, apices of stipites not bifid, but 

 bent outwards ; front tibia) pale anteriorly only at the apex, 

 which has no lateral semicircular emargination, but has a 

 blunt pencil of dark hairs at the inner angle, tarsi with 

 the second joint not spotted beneath, posterior tibire not 



