6. CCELI0XT8. 143 



Ccelioxys elongata, St.-Farq. Hym. ii. 522 $. 



Gerst. Stett. ent. Zeit. (1869) J 70 J 2 ■ 

 Apis conica, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 225 <$ $ , var. /3 c? , var. y cJ . 

 Ccelioxys conica, Curtis, Brit. Ent. 349, pi. 319. fig. $ , fig. 7 <3 . 

 Apis inermis, Kirby, lib. cit. ii. 229 (j 1 . 



Ccelioxys simplex, Nyland. Notis. nr SullsJc. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 

 279 $ . 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. 174 ; Entom. iv. 5 cJ 5 • 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 369. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 42 ; Hym. Scand. ii. 276. 

 Coelioxys microdonta, Foerst. Verhandl. Preuss. Bheinl. x. 291 J. 

 Ccelioxys divergent, Foerst. lib. cit. 292 cJ ? 

 Ccelioxys 3-cuspidata, Foerst. lib. cit. 302 2 ? 

 Ccelioxys mandibulars, Nyland. lib. cit. i. 253 $ var. ? 



Female. Length 3|-6| lines. — Black ; the head and thorax strongly 

 and closely punctured ; the face densely covered with pale fulvous 

 pubescence, which becomes almost white in long-disclosed speci- 

 mens ; the pubescence on the sides of the thorax beneath and on 

 the metathorax paler than that on the face, white in old examples ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, clouded at their apical margins ; the spines 

 at the apex of the tibia) pale testaceous. Abdomen shining, strongly 

 punctured at the base, the punctures becoming gradually finer to 

 the apical margin of the fifth segment ; the sixth subopaque, cari- 

 nated down the centre, and finely and closely punctured and 

 tapering to its apex ; the ventral plate much longer tban the upper 

 one, narrow, elongate, and lanceolate. (See PI. IX. figs. 2 t, 2 u, 

 2 n.) B.M. 



Male. Leugth 3-4| lines. — Black ; the head and thorax closely 

 and strongly punctured, the former wider than the latter ; the face 

 with a dense pale fulvous pubescence, becoming silvery white at 

 the anterior margin of the clypeus. Thorax — the posterior margin 

 of the scutellum subangular, varying in different individuals to a 

 more or less rounded form ; on each side of the scutellum a short 

 curved spine ; the spines at the apex of all the tibiae rufo -testace- 

 ous. Abdomen— the lateral angles of the apical margin of the 

 fifth segment produced L?to a more or less short acute tooth ; the 

 sixth segment armed laterally at the base with an acute tooth ; 

 the apex of the segment with two produced stout bifurcate appen- 

 dages, the upper tooth of each being short and stout, the inferior 

 tooth twice as long, more slender, and acute ; the appendages, 

 when viewed perpendicularly, have the short upper teeth diverging 

 laterally beyond the lower ones. B.M. 



I concur with Dr. Gerstaecker in considering this species to be the 

 C. elongata of St.-Fargeau. Why he altogether passes unnoticed 

 the Kirbyan synonyma it is difficult to imagine, since that author 

 has given ample and correct figures of all parts of the species, and, 

 in addition, I have shown that, having examined the typical speci- 

 mens, Kirby's A. conica is decidedly this species, and also that 

 his A. inermis is only a mutilated specimen of the male, the meta- 

 thorax being split transversely and pushed upwards, thereby con- 



