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only have occurred ; of the former Mr. F. Smith caught 

 three in 1837, his son caught one ? in 1864 near Deal. 

 Smith in the second edition of his "British Bees" says, "I 

 took three males in 1833," but in recording his son's 

 capture of the ? in the Eat. Annual for 1865, p. 95, he 

 says, "In the year 1837 I captured three humble bees, 

 &c., <Src." So I take the latter as the correct date. 



B. lapidarius, Linn. — Rather more elongate than most 

 of the species of the geuus, clothed with deep black hairs, 

 those of the fourth and following segments of the abdomen 

 bright red ; (^ with the face, a band across the thorax in 

 front, sides of the thorax below the wings, and a few hairs 

 round the propodeum posteriorly, yellow ; abdomen beneath 

 clothed with pale hairs at the base with red at the ape.x: ; 

 in the ? the thorax has in very rare cases a pale band in 

 front, cheeks about as long as their apical width ; antennfe 

 in the ^ with the third and fifth joints subequal, the 

 fourth about two-thirds as long as the third ; armature 

 with the sagittm simple beneath, their apices each with a 

 sharp hama on the inner side, lacinia emarginate at the 

 apex, and subparallel-sided, lobate at the base ; femora in 

 the (J clothed with pale hairs beneath, tibiffi and metatarsi 

 fringed with long red hairs ; hairs of the legs in the ? 

 black, intermediate metatarsi not produced at the apex. 



L. 12-20 mm. 



Common and generally distributed. The Rev. F. D. 

 Morice has captured two curious examples of the ? in both 

 of which the red of the apex of the abdomen " shades off " 

 into the black of the base something after the manner of 

 jjomoruvi, but the greater width of the abdomen, and the 

 absence of the produced angle of the intermediate meta- 

 tarsi, will distinguish it easily. The cocoons of this species 

 are of a peculiarly bright yellow, very clean and free from 

 ■wax. 



B. Jonellus, Kirb. {Scrimsln'rayuis, Kirh., var. nivalis, 

 Smith itcc Dahlh.). — In coloration almost similar to typical 



