172 SOLITARY BEES AND WASPS. 



pearance, being densely covered with yellowish 

 down, and is easily known by her second pair 

 of legs which are very long and clothed with tufts 

 of black hairs. Its nesting habits are the same 

 as those of Colletes, only the grubs remain in the 

 cells all through the winter and hatch out in the 

 spring. 



There are immense numbers of these bees on 

 Hampstead Heath, and it is said to be the species 

 alluded to by Gilbert White, of Selborne, as 

 existing in colonies on Mount Carburn, near 

 Lewes, and so bold is it that when people walk 

 near its nests it will rise on the wing and dash 

 against the faces of the intruders. One species 

 of Anthophora makes its cell on dry walls, where 

 it looks like a lump of mud, as if a handful of 

 wet roadstuff had been thrown on the brickwork. 

 These bees are clever little masons and use sand, 

 earth, chalk, and woody material, mixed in 

 different ways, to form the nurseries for the eggs 

 they purpose to lay. 



I have not as yet been able to find one of 

 these nests, but I read that they are about an 

 inch deep, of the form and size of a lady's 



