218 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



1. Anthidium manicatum, Linn. (PI. X., figs. 3 — da). 



Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. x., i., p. 577 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 168. 



Black ; clothed with yellowish grey hairs ; face and abdomen 

 with yellow spots ; 6th and 7th segments in the ^ with large 

 lateral spines at the apex ; ? with the abdomen simple, the scopa 

 beneath golden, 



3' . Head and thorax black, closely punctured, clothed with 

 short yellowish brown hairs ; mandibles, except at the apex, a 

 bilobate spot on the clypeus, the cheeks below the antennae, and a 

 small spot behind each eye, yellow. Thorax with the tegulse 

 yellow in front; wings slightly dusky. Abdomen black, clothed 

 with erect greyish hairs, and with a rather denser band of browner 

 hairs at the apex of each segment, and a tnit of the same along the 

 lateral margins of each ; all the segments, except the 7th, with a 

 yellow spot on each side ; the 4th and 5th often with a second pair 

 of spots on the disk ; 6th and 7th segments spined on each side at 

 the apex, the 7th with a third very fine spine in the centre. Abdo- 

 men beneath clothed with grey hairs (for 8th segment and genitalia 

 see PI. X., figs. 3 — 3 a). Legs variegated with yellow, and clothed 

 with silvery grey hairs, 



2 . Smaller than the $ , but coloured ahnost similarly, the 

 Spots of the abdomen smaller, its apex simply rounded, and the 

 under side bearing a dense golden scopa. Legs almost entirely 

 black, with only very small yellow spots. Length, 11 — 16 mm. 



Hah. Very common in many localities, frequenting 

 labiate plants. 



EUCEEA, Scop. 



Scop., Ann. Hist. Nat., iv., 8. 



Wings vvdth two submarginal cells ; labial palpi 4-jointed ; maxil- 

 lary palpi 6-jointed ; 2nd joint of labial palpi not half so long as the 

 1st. Antennae of the ^ very long, reaching nearly to the apex of the 

 abdomen. Thorax densely hairy ; metatarsi of J dilated on their 

 external margins ; <? with six ventral segments exposed ; genital 

 armature stout, the stipites produced into long naxrow bent pro- 

 cesses (see PL X., fig. 6). 



1. Eucera longicoi^nis, Linn. (PL X., figs. 6 — 6 h). 



Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. x., i., p. 574 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 183. 



Black ; head and thorax densely clothed with brown hairs ; cly- 

 peus of the (J white. Antennae very long, reaching to the 4th 

 abdominal segment ; $ with the antennae short, reaching to about 



