208 Mr. E. Saunders' Synojms of 



Hah. Local ; appears early in May. Somersham, 

 near Ipswich ; Darenth Wood ; near Liverpool ; near 

 Bristol, frequenting ground-ivy. 



Easily distinguished from the preceding by the shining 

 area of the metathorax. 



4. Osmia 'parietina, Curt. (PI. VIIL, fig. 11). 



Curt., Brit. Ent., v., p. 222, pi. 222, 2 ; Smith, Cat. 

 Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., p. 157 = vulpecula, Gerst. ? 



Black ; face in both sexes with pale hairs. Thorax and 1st seg- 

 ment of abdomen with fulvous hairs ; ^ with the 7th segment of 

 the abdomen entire ; calcaria black. 



<y . Head and thorax closely punctured, the former clothed with 

 whitish hairs below the antennae and with dull fulvous hairs above. 

 Antennae reaching to the base of the scutellum. Thorax clothed 

 with bright fulvous hairs ; wings slightly clouded ; metathoracic 

 area dull, finely rugose. Abdomen shining, subglobose, finely 

 punctured ; basal segment clothed with long fulvous hairs, the 

 rest with black and fulvous hairs intermixed ; 6th and 7th seg- 

 ments entire at the apex ; beneath punctured, 2nd segment nar- 

 rowly emarginate in the centre ; 3rd visible only at the sides ; 4th 

 hairy at the apex, rest hidden (for genitalia see PL VIII., fig. 11). 

 Legs clothed with pale hairs ; calcaria black ; posterior metatarsi 

 simple. 



5 . Face clothed with pale fulvoiis hairs, thorax with bright 

 fulvous ; metathoracic area dull. Abdomen with the basal seg- 

 ment clothed with fulvous hairs, the rest with black; the apical 

 segment with paler hairs intermixed ; beneath with the scopa 

 black. Legs clothed with black hairs, paler beneath. Length, 

 8 mm. 



Hab. Ambleside, Westmoreland ; Bridgend, Gla- 

 morgan ; Loch Eannoch ; Grampian Hills ; F. Smith. 

 I have never met with this species. 



Very distinct by the simple apex of the abdomen of 

 the cT and the coloration of the pubescence in the ? . 



5. Osmia ccerulescens, Linn. (PI. VIIL, fig. 13). 



Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. x., i., p. 576 — csnea, Smith, 

 Cat. Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., p. 153. 



/Eneous or bluish. Abdomen of the ^ short and subovate ; 6th 

 dorsal segment simple or very slightly emarginate ; 7th bidentate ; 

 5 with the metathoracic area dull ; scopa black. 



