HYMENOPTERA. 3 



5. COLLETES IMPUNCTATA. 



CoUetes impimctata, Nyland. Revis. Synop. Ap. Boreal, p. 249. 

 Hab. Finland. 



6. CoLLETES DaVIESANA. B.M. 



Melitta Daviesana, Kirby, MSS. 



Colletes Daviesana, Smith, Zool. iv. 1278. 4, S , ? . 



Hab. Britain ; France ; Finland. 



7. Colletes cunicularia. 



Apis cunicularia, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 422, 1698 ; Syst. Nat. i. 



957. 23. 

 Colletes hirta, St. Farg. 4* Serv. Encyc. Meth. x. 406. 1. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 296. 1. t. 15. f. 2 ? , 3 <? . 



Luc. Exped. Sc. Alger, iii, 182. 89. 

 Hab. France; Sweden; Algeria. 



8. Colletes nasuta, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured ; the clypeus very much produced, and slightly rounded 

 at the apical margin ; the labrum has five deep longitudinal im- 

 pressions ; the mandibles at two-thirds of their length are bent 

 abruptly, forming sharp angles at their outer margins ; the face 

 is clothed with long white pubescence ; the thorax above clothed 

 with long pale pubescence, shghtly tinged with fulvous ; that on 

 the sides, beneath, and on the femora white ; the tibise and tarsi 

 have a short silvery pubescence, that on the basal joint of the 

 tarsi beneath yellow ; the claws ferruginous. The abdomen has 

 the basal segment roughly punctm-ed, the following segments 

 each successively more finely so ; the apical margins depressed 

 and having a band of white pubescence, that on the basal seg- 

 ment being the narrowest ; beneath, the margins are fringed with 

 white pubescence. 



Male.— Closely resembles the female, but the clypeus not so 

 much produced, and the face clothed with white pubescence. 

 Hab. PoUsh Ukraine. 



9. Colletes dimidiata. 



Colletes dimidiata, Brulle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. ii. 86. 23. t. 3. 



f. 9. 

 Hab. Canary Islands. 



