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from that of P. signata by having a yellow spot on the scape 

 and legulae. I strongly suspect the P. armillata of Nylander 

 to be synonymous with it. 



1 captured this species at Birch Wood, in Kent, in 1840, 

 since which I have not met with it. 



5. Prosopis signata, Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 12, male, 



female; Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 190; Scheuck, Hi/ni. 

 Nassau, p. 318. 

 Sphex signata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 53, 2. 

 Melitta signata, Kirhy, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 41. 

 Proso|>is atrata, Fahr. Si/st. Piez. p, 295. 

 This species has been bred from bramble-sticks, and, as [ 

 have shown, it sometimes nidificates in the mortar of walls : 

 it is found throughout Eurojie. I have only observed this 

 species on the flowers of the blackberry and mignonette. 

 Prof. Schenck finds it on the milfoil and tansy. 



6. Prosopis hyalinata. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. \v. 



33, male, female ; Bees Great Brit. p. 13. 

 This species is extremely abundant in many situations — 

 at Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight ; at VValitier, and along the 

 line of coast on the slopes from thence to Dover: it frequents 

 the flowers of the coujmon bramble. The face of the male 

 is white, as in the same sex of P. signata. 



7. Prosopis variegata, Fabr. Si/st. Piez. p. 259 ; St. Farg. 



Hym. ii. 534, 1 ; Lucas, Expto. Sc. Alger, iii. 223 ; 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 14; Schenck, Hym. 



Nassau, p. 318. 

 Prosopis colorata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 89, 14. 

 First taken by Dr. Leach, at Kingsbridge, Devon : I ob- 

 tained a specimen from a collection of insects made at Hidde- 

 ford. It has been suggested that this insect is only a 

 coloured variety of P. signata ; but the diflerence of form in 

 the prothorax, &c., satisfies me that it is distinct froni that 

 species. 



8. Prosopis bifasciata, J urine, Hym. p. 220, t. 11, f. 30 ; 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 530 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. i. p. 



22. 



Female. — Length 3|^ — 4 lines. Head and thorax black ; 



abdomen red. Head closely and strongly puncttued, an 



elongated cream-coloured spot on each side of the face close 



to the eyes; the antennaj obscurely ferruginous beneath; the 



