212 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



emarginate, and fringed with golden hairs (for genitalia see PI. VIII., 

 fig. 16). Legs clothed with pale hairs; tarsi piceous. 



5 . Head and thorax closely punctured ; face below the antennae 

 with white hairs at the sides, and with yellowish hairs on the apex 

 of the clypeus, which is emarginate. Thorax somewhat shining, 

 clothed round the margins, in fresh examples, with pale brownish 

 hairs ; scutellum with brownish hairs ; metathoracic area dull. 

 Abdomen shining, coal-black, strongly punctured ; 1st to 4th seg- 

 ments with a lateral streak of silvery hairs at the apex ; beneath 

 with the scopa ochreous-grey. Legs clothed with pale hairs, tarsi 

 internally with golden ; calcaria pale. Length, 8 — 9 mm. 



Hah. This pretty little species is rare, and has been 

 recorded from Charlton, Kent ; Hawley, Hants ; Chob- 

 ham, Weybridge, and Charlwood, Surrey ; near Exeter ; 

 Leigh Woods, Bristol ; Coddenham, near Needham 

 Market, Suffolk. It makes its nest in dead bramble- 

 stems. 



10. Osmia sjnnulosa, Kirb. (PI. VIII., fig. 12). 



Kirb., Mon. Ap. Angl., ii., p. 261, pi. xvii., 1 & 2; 

 Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., p. 162. 



Small, black, clothed with brownish hairs ; ^ with the 6th seg- 

 ment rounded and denticulate ; beneath with a long spine on the 

 disk of the 1st segment, and a smaller one on the 2nd near the 

 apex ; j with a pale pubescent streak at the apex of the 4th, 5th, 

 and 6th segments ; scopa beneath orange. 



^ . Head and thorax closely and largely punctured, densely 

 clothed with brown hairs. Antennge not quite reaching to the 

 tegulse ; 3rd joint short, not much longer than the 4th ; wings 

 slightly clouded ; nervures dark piceous ; metathoracic area slightly 

 shining towards the apex. Abdomen slightly shining, largely punc- 

 tured ; sides of the segments and an apical line on the 3rd, 4th, 

 and 5th, clothed with pale ochreous hairs ; 6th segment rounded at 

 the apex, with numerous small spine-like teeth on its margin ; 7th 

 produced into a sharp point ; beneath with the 1st segment bearing 

 a strong upright central spine ; 2nd with a narrow short subapical 

 spine ; 3rd visible only at the sides ; 4th and 5th entire (for geni- 

 talia see PL VIII., fig. 12). Legs clothed with pale hairs ; calcaria 

 pale. 



5 . Very like the ^ in general appearance, but with the head 

 and thorax less densely hairy, and the hairs shorter and greyish. 

 Abdomen shorter, with an apical line of pale hairs on the 4th, 5th, 

 and 6th segments ; beneath with the scopa bright orange-red, 

 Length, 7 — 8 mm. 



