7. osmia. 153 



white ; the pubescence on the tibiae and tarsi fulvous, that on tho 

 tarsi beneath rufo-fulvous ; the calcaria and claws rufo-testaceous ; 

 wings subhyaline, clouded towards their apex, the marginal cell 

 haviug a fuscous stripe along its anterior margin ; the nervures 

 fusco-ferruginous. B.M. 



Var. j3. Length 4 lines. — The horns on the face angular. 



Male. Length 3£~5i lines. — Strongly resembling the female; the 

 face unarmed, clothed with long white hair; the antennae slender 

 and filiform, nearly as long as the thorax ; the head and thorax are 

 of a blue-green, the wings as in the female ; the pubescence on the 

 disk of the thorax long and of an ochraceous tint, the legs clothed 

 as in the other sex. Abdomen densely clothed with long fulvous 

 pubescence, suberect, and arranged in fascia? ; the margin of the 

 apical segment entire. B.M. 



One of the most abundant bees found in England, forming occa- 

 sionally large colonies. Osmia coniuta is given in old lists of British 

 bees as being an indigenous species ; but no sufficient or reliable evi- 

 dence of its being so exists. Specimens are placed in the British 

 collection of bees in the British Museum, but they have no locality 

 attached to them ; the species is therefore omitted in this work. 



2. Osmia aenea. 



0. corpove femince caerulescente, albido subpubescente : ventre laua 

 atra dense vestito ; corpore maris aeneo, fulvo pubescente, ano 

 bidentato. 



Osmia aenea, Smith, Bees Great Brit. 170 J § . 



Schenck, Nasg. Bien. 339. 

 Apis aenea, Linn. Faun. Suec. 421 ; Syst. Xat. i. 955 J . 



Scop. Ent. Cam. 303. 

 Andrena aenea, Ent. Syst. ii. 309. 



Bossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 96. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 56.3 <$. 

 Anthophora aenea, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 381. 

 Apis caerulescens, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 955 $ . 



Kirby, Mem. Apum Anyl. ii. 264. 

 Andrena caerulescens, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 307. 



Bossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 86. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 65. 18 $ • 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 323. 

 Osmia caerulescens, Latr. EncyeJ. Meth. viii. 581 J $ . 



St.-Fary. Hym. ii. 325. 



Bridle, Hist. Nat. Conor, iii. 85. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 743. 



Lucas, Expl. Sc. Alger, iii. 190. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Siillsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 262. 



Gerst. Stett. ent. Zeit. (18(j9) 352. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 240. 



Female. Length 3|-44 lines. — Head and thorax very closely punc- 

 tured, black, blue-black, or violet ; the head with long sparing pale 



