162 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



the apex. Legs clothed with fulvous hairs ; tarsi pale piceous, 

 except the basal joint. 



5 . Black, shining ; head densely, thorax somewhat sparsely, 

 clothed with black hairs ; mesothorax finely and remotely punc- 

 tured ; metathorax smooth, with the basal area undefined. Abdo- 

 men subelHptic, sparsely clothed with rather long fine brown hairs, 

 the apex of each segment impressed and somewhat piceous ; apical 

 fringe brown ; beneath rather densely clothed with brown hairs, 

 5th segment largely emarginate at the apex. Legs clothed with 

 golden hairs ; posterior tibiae and metatarsi, and the apices of all 

 the tarsi, testaceous. Scop^e bright golden. Length, 9 — 10 mm. 



Hah. A common species in many localities. London 

 District ; Cliobliam ; Hastings ; Bournemouth ; Sidmouth ; 

 Barmouth, N. Wales ; Norwich ; &c. Burrows in the 

 ground, and is chiefly found in sandy localities. Smith 

 records dentipes as British on a single specimen in the 

 collection of the British Museum. Should this species 

 occur in this country it can easily be recognised by the 

 spinose or dentate posterior trochanters and Jsimple 

 femora of the <? , and by the highly polished surface of 

 the metathorax of the ? , the basal area of which is 

 not longitudinally striate. It is of the same size as 

 cdlcaratus. 



EoPHiTES, Spin. 

 Spin., Ins. Lig., ii., p. 9. 



Species dull and pubescent, halictiform, but wings with two sub- 

 marginal cells ; labial palpi 4-jointed ; maxillary palpi 6-jointed ; 

 tongue narrow and elongate, much longer than the palpi, reaching 

 to the abdomen ; ^ with the 7th segment hidden, produced at each 

 side into a long process ; the 8th very narrow and long, widened 

 and spoon-shaped at the apex, which is just visible beyond the 6th ; 

 posterior tibiae with a patella at the base. Antennae of ^ con- 

 siderably longer than those of the $ . 



1. Kophites quinquespinosus, Spin. (PL V., fig. 3 — 3^.) 



Spin., Ins. Lig., ii., p. 72. 



5 . Head black, clothed with brown hairs, very finely and 

 closely punctured ; face longer than wide. Antennae reaching to 

 the prothorax. Thorax black, very finely and closely punctured, 

 and densely clothed with short brown hairs ; tegulae piceous ; 

 wings subhyaline, darker at the apex ; metathorax dull, radiately 

 striate at the base, closely punctured posteriorly. Abdomen dull, 

 closely, finely, and evenly punctured, black, clothed with very 



