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nu; les 3 premiers segments portant des bandes minces 

 les 4. et 5. portant des bandes plus larges de poils cou- 

 ches argentes, 6. segment e'margine dans sou milieu et 

 arme d' une dent ä chaque extremite. Pattes garnies de 

 poils blanchatres. Les ailes transparentes. 

 Crime'e/ (Rad.) 



262. Osiuia taurus Smith. 



1873. Osmia taurus Smith, Qi^ Trans. Entom. Soc. London, p. 201. 



„Female. Length 5^2 lines. Obscure aeneous: the 

 head with long fulvous pubescence, inclinig to fuscous on 

 the vei-tex; the clypeus with two stout horns, which are 

 obliquely truncate at their apex; the mandibles very stout, 

 and terminated by a strong bifid tooth. The thorax and 

 legs with long pale fulvous pubescence, that on the tarsi 

 ferruginous; the claw -joints ferruginous; the wings fusco- 

 hyaline. Abdomen very convex, with a thin fulvous pu- 

 bescence, and densely clothed beneath with ferruginous 

 pubescence. 



Male. Rather smaller than the female ; the face with 

 white pubescence; the tarsi have the claw-joint ferrugi- 

 nous; the abdomen black, with the apical margins of the 

 segments testaceous. 



Hab. Hiogo." (Japonia.) 



263. Osmia tibiodentata Rad. 



1888. Pseudoosmia tibiodentata Radoszkowski, Q Horae soc. ent. 



Ross. XXII. p. 340. 

 1896. Osmia tibiodentata Dalla Torre, Catal. Hymen X. p. 412. 



„Nigra; antennarum funiculo brunneo-ferrugineo ; 

 abdominis segmentis margine apicali niveo-fasciatis ; tibiis 

 posterioribus apice interno dente armatis; mandibulis tri- 

 dentatis, 



9- Noire: Tete rugueuse, la face avec le chaperon 

 garnie de poils longs blaues; antennes (excepte leurs 

 bases) brunes roussatres ; mandibules tridentees. Corselet 



