•284 Mr. E. Saunders' Sf/nojms of 



and 5th segments with an apical band of snow-white 

 hairs, interrupted on the 3rd ; centre of the 7th segment 

 raised, produced at the apex beyond the sides; beneath 

 very shining, 3rd and 4th segments with a golden fringe, 

 5th largely emarginate, the emargination fringed with 

 short hairs, 6tli densely clothed with short golden hairs, 

 (for 7th, 8th, and genitalia see pi. x., figs. 1, la — d). Legs 

 clothed with pale hairs ; tarsi piceous ; posterior femora 

 swollen, punctured; tibiae dilated, the upper margin 

 curved, the lower margin somewhat produced near the 

 apex, and then slightly sinuate (see pi. x., figs, le, If), 

 calcaria pale ; tarsi very short. 



2 . Eather shorter than the <? ; face black, and the 

 antennae shorter ; the thorax less hairy ; the abdomen 

 shorter, with an interrupted snow-white streak on the 3rd 

 segment, and an entire one on the apex of the 4th, the 

 5th with soot}^ hairs, the 6th with black ; beneath, the 

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments are fringed at the apex with 

 golden hairs, the 5th and 6th with brown. Legs clothed 

 with brown hairs ; posterior pair with the scop?e yel- 

 lowish white ; metatarsi dilated, densely clothed with black 

 hairs ; tarsi piceous at the apex. Length 9—10 mm. 



Hah. Very rare. Mr. Bridgman has taken both sexes 

 at Norwich off thistles ; the other known British localities 

 are the New Forest and Weybridge. 



Dasypoda, Latr. 



Latr., Hist. Nat., iii., p. 372. For figures of generic 

 characters see F. Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., pi. vii. 



Labial palpi 4-jointed. Maxillary palpi 6-jointed. 

 Anterior wings with two submarginal cells. Body hairy ; 

 posterior tibiae and metatarsi, especially in the ? , clothed 

 with very long hairs ; tibia destitute of a patella. 



A very distinct genus ; the <? looks rather like a large 

 elongate Andrena, but the want of the 3rd submarginal 

 cell is a distinct characteristic. 



1. Dasypoda Jiirtipes, Latr. 

 Latr., Hist. Nat. xiii., p. 369 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 

 2nd ed., p. 103. 



Black ; <? clothed with pale fulvous hairs ; each seg- 

 ment of the abdomen with a pale fulvous apical band ; 

 $ with the thorax clothed with fulvous hairs, with a 



