\'2i HYMENOPTERA. 



the Ijase, narrowing towards the apex, which is furnished with 

 an anal fimbria. 



Ohs. The situation of this fine inseet is not prohably that at 

 present assijrned to it ; hut tiie only s])ecimen known is in the 

 Naticnial Colk-ction, and those parts of the oral orj^ans whieh 

 might determine it eould not l)e sufficiently examined. The 

 name of the genus sufficiently indicates its general appearance, 

 and seems to point out its situation. 



1. MeGACILISSA SUPERBA, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 91 lines. — Black, the fiice densely clothed 

 with white pubescence, on the vertex it is black, and the poste- 

 rior margin of the vertex is fringed with white ; the apex of the 

 labrum ferruginous, and covered with stiff ferniginous hairs. 

 Thorax above clothed with bright fulvous pubescence ; on the 

 sides, beneath, and on the anterior femora beneath it is white, 

 there is also a little white on the intermediate tibifc, the scopa 

 very dense and of a dull brown, otherwise the legs are thickly 

 covered with short black pubescence ; the basal segment of the 

 abdomen clothed with fulvous pubescence, that on the three 

 following segments is short and black, having a white fascia on 

 their apical margins, the fifth and sixth covered with long black 

 ])ubescence, the latter naked in the piiddle ; beneath black. 



Hab. Not known. 



Genus 30. DASYPODA. 



Andrena, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 30/ (1793). 



Apis, 2it., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 335. 



Melitta, pt., Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. i. 140, * * e (1802). 



Dasj-poda, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 369 (1805). 



1. Dasypoda hirtipes. B.M. 



Andrena hirtipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 312. 24. 



Apis hirta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 335. 92. 



Andi-ena plumipes, Panz. Faun. Germ. 46. 16, $ . 



Apis farfarisequa, Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 14, S ■ 



Dasypoda hirta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 336. 2. 



Melitta Swammerdamella, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl.n. 174. 111. 



Dasypoda hirtipes, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 369. 1. 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 335. 1. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 229. 1. t. 22. f. 1 ? ,2<? . 



Smith, Zoologist, vi. 2241. 1. 



Nyland. Apum Boreal. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. i. 225. 1. 



