186 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



punctured in the ? , less finely but rather remotely in 

 the (? ; the other segments very finelj'' and closely punc- 

 tured in the ? , not quite so closely in the ^ ; each seg- 

 ment with !i narrow greyish brown band at the apex in 

 both sexes ; the basal segment in the ^ covered with very 

 long erect hairs, the others with shorter hairs ; the 

 abdomen of the ? is also clothed with erect hairs, but 

 they are much shorter than in the <? ; legs covered with 

 greyish hairs. Genitalia of the <? with the sagittfe 

 very much produced, forming two concave knife-like 

 blades, quite unlike those of any of the other species. 

 See pi. vii., fig. 15. Length 8 — 9 mm. 



Hab. Common in many places. Hastings, Little- 

 hampton, Charlton, Eeigate, &c. 



A very distinct species, easily known from the other 

 smaller species by the shining surface of the body and 

 the remote puncturation. 



6. Colletes cunicularia, Linn. 



Linn., Faun. Suec, ed. ii., p. 422 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 6. 



(? . Black-brown, densely covered with brown hairs, 

 those of the face and under side paler. Antennae reach- 

 ing not quite to the scutellum ; head finely rugose ; 

 'thorax with its surface somewhat shining and largely and 

 remotely punctured ; nervures of the wings brown. 

 Abdomen oval, slightly shining, finely and somewhat 

 remotely punctured on the basal segment, more closely 

 on the following ; each segment very hairy, with the 

 apical hairs slightly paler than the rest ; legs with pale 

 hairs. The genitalia are figured at pi. vii., fig. 2. 



? broader than the <? , and the abdomen wider at the 

 base, and more pointed at the apex, its puncturation 

 finer ; hairs of the face sooty brown. Antennae much 

 shorter ; legs clothed with pale hairs on the side towards 

 the body, and darker hairs outwardl3\ The entire insect 

 having much the appearance of an ordinary hive bee. 

 Length 14 — 15 mm. 



Hab. Sand-hills near Liverpool. 



A large species which cannot be confounded with any 

 other. 



