DASYrODA. 



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1. Dasypoda hirtipes. 



D. atra, pallide villosa, pedibus posticis fulvo longissiine lanatis, 

 abdomiue fasciis tribus albidis. 



Dasypoda hirtipes, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 369. 



Fabr. Si/st. Piez. '635. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 229. 



Smith, Zool. vi. 2241 ; Bees Great Brit. 112. 



Nr/land. Notis. ur Stilish, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 225. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 208. 



Tlwms. Hym. Scand. ii. 63. 

 Andrena birtipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 312 § . 

 Apis birta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 335 S . 

 Andrena plumipes, Panz. Faun. Germ. 46. 16 5 • 

 Apis farfarisequa, Panz. lib. cit. 55. 14 <5 . 



Melitta swammerdamella, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 174 $ J . 

 Dasypoda swammerdamella, Curtis, Brit. Ent. viii. tab. 367 <3 5 • 

 Trachusa birtipes, Jurine, Hym. 250. 

 Dasypoda plumipes, Leach, Edin. Encycl.ix. 155. 



Swammerdam, Bib. Nat. tab. 26. rig. 7 5 . 



Female. Length 6-7 lines. — Black ; the pubescence on the face 

 below the insertion of the antenme cinereous, above it is black, 

 sparing on the vertex. Thorax, the pubescence on the middle of 

 the disk black surrounded with fulvous, on the sides and beneath it 

 is very pale ; beneath, densely clothed with cinereous pubescence ; 

 wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins, the nervures 

 rufo-piceous ; the anterior and intermediate tarsi have the basal 

 joint above clothed with fuscous pubescence, beneath it is fulvous; 

 the scopa very long, dense, and bright fulvous. Abdomen sub- 

 ovate, at the base a little cinereous pubescence, the three inter- 

 mediate segments have a fascia of white pubescence on their 

 apical margins, the first interrupted ; the apical fimbria sooty 

 black. B.M. 



Male. Length 5-6 \ lines. — The pubescence on the clypeus, cheeks, 

 thorax beneath, and the fringe of the anterior and intermediate 

 femora white ; on the vertex and thorax above it is fulvous ; the 

 legs have a long pale fulvous pubescence ; the wings subhyaline, 

 the nervures and tegulse feiTuginous ; the tarsi have the claw-joint 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate lanceolate, the apical margins of 

 the segments testaceous ; each segment has a long fringe of pale 

 fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



This elegant insect appears at the beginning of August. It fre- 

 quents the mouse-car hawkwecd. It is local; but occasionally large 

 colonies are found. I have found it at Charlton, raid's Cray, 

 Gravcscnd, Southend, Deal, Lowestoft, Yarmouth, Lraunton Burrows, 

 \Yhitesand Bay, Land's End, Littlehampton, and Barmouth, jSorth 

 Wales. The male I once captured at ten o'clock at night flying in 

 Lower Street, Deal. 





