Metabolia. Apis eyenca. 5 ‘- ten ar 
—T— ~~ Inhabits Europe. 
> tn i ‘ 7 Subdi ivis ton 2. TE 
Labrum longer than) broad, inclined - 
ly; c beneath the mandibles, elongate, quadrate. 
strong ; porrected, with the apex bidentate, 
in some ; trigonate, and often multidentate; in others. 
* Labial palpi with the three first joints continuous, 
"the - inserted. under: the external apex of 
652. Ro Ges I. Ropurres.. Spinola, Latr. 
= ee | Maxillary palpi six-jointed. 
nque- = « ois 
653. Cue- » Genus) I. Cuenostoma: = Latr. 
tostoma. » Aprs.’ Linn, Villers, Kirby. (** c. 2. 7). 
- Hyv2xus. Fabr. puts 
:Anturprum. — Panzer: 
Mandibles (of the females) arcuated, their 
dentate or’ farcate, porrect, internally hairy. 
bi- 
axil- 
% slender, and» of the 
SSeS 
and at its base is a horn or When asleep, 
they roll themselves up like an the horn or 
ae ay ee 
in v1 in 
Se 
em » Sp.1. Florisomnis. 
i with the second jo t not longer than 
: 7 Alpi tw. s - *-* t 
Mandibles strong. — boner ubeve) 
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- Inhabits Europes __ je..2 _Metabolia! 
. Genus DCLVI., Anruipiwm. Fabr: Panzer, Klug. ~ 
Latreille. tae yncthisky 
_ Arts, . Linn,-Geoff, Scheffer, Kirby. (** v2. a.) 71" 
Anruopuora.. Iliger. ~ : 
-Megcacuiie.. W: aer, Spinola. 
- Tracuusa. Jurine, | tsi 
Labial palpi with their second joint: not longer than: 
the. first. Maxillary palpi one-jointed.. Abdemen of 
the. females, below, very hairy ; above; convex) ineur~ 
ved; the, base broadly truncate. Mandiblés’broad, 
multidentate, < 
The anus of the males of this genus is always armed: 
with spines. 
Ss 1. Manicatum. Manica- 
manicatum. Panzer; Latreille.: tum. 
Apis manicata. Kirby, Linn. 
Inhabits Europe. 
The following i ing account of the of 
Anthidium manicatum, is extracted:from Kirby's Mo- 
nographia. << Linnzus,” says he, «< observes, upomwthis 
bee, zn arboribus cavis nidos construit ; but he takes no 
notice of the materials of which the nidi were made. 
This i has been supplied by Mr James: Trim= 
mer and Sir Thomas Cullum: The former of these gen- 
tlemen some time since informed me, that having had 
Spee epee of watching the motions of An- 
i = 1 SOAPS Re 9 finding that the female con- 
stantly stachys germanica, agrostemma coro- 
naria, uid. tthen seecliy deapodl plants which grew in 
his he was:curious to know the reason of this - 
ce. It was not long before his .curiosity was 
gratified ; and he discovered that it was the wool;which 
covers the surface of the leaves of these plants, that was 
their attraction ; for he observed the little-animal, with 
her strong “:mandibule,” ing it off with great in- 
dustry ee mere and while these were thus 
=, ing it up, with her fore legs, into alittle 
*; making, all the time, widensiditde hum.) .The 
use to which she) applied the material thus collected; 
Mr Trimmer could never discover ; we only conjectu- 
red that she employed it in the construction of her nest. 
bee conjecture is almost turned into certainty by a 
llowing account given my i i i ir 
Thomas Cullum, to Mr Maiden, of a: neat which he 
found made of similar materials. He thus expresses - 
himself, in a letter to that gentleman. “I 
in a lock of one of my garden gates, that the key did 
not turn easily round ; and. looking into'the'key- 
hole, I saw something white: I-had the lock taken off, 
and it was completely full of a downy. substance,’ con- 
taining the pupa of some.bee, I ude. Upon exa- 
mining the Ph substance, I am certain*it’is the fine 
tris, of which 
pappus or down the Anemone 
two its in m n. I have preserved’the 
whole as I found it ; but the bee has not yet made its 
in its state. I shall watch their 
and send them-to you or to Mr Kirby.” This . 
tter is dated October 10. 1800. Sir Thomas has'sinee 
— the ess to send me the nid walle pashli be 
ill quiescent, (April 2. 1801), and willy pro’ 
not Fe ill after Midsummer. .Upon compating 
it with the anecdote which I haye just related of this 
bee, 1 cannot help being of opinion, ‘that‘it is'thenidus 
of that ies. It is with some ‘hesitation that I ven- 
ture to differ from so accurate an‘observer as‘Sir ‘Tho- 
mas Cullum ; but it appears to me that the»wool which 
envelopes the nest the cells, is fromtlie ; 
leaves of one of the fitst mentioned plants. I gather- 
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