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where they occur any quantity of them may be taken. 

 They are found in their season in the southern counties, 

 the Isle of Wight, and in several parts of Kent and its 

 eastern coast, and even as near London as Charlton. 

 They seem to prefer the composite flowers, having a 

 great liking for the bastard Hawkweed and the Dande- 

 lion. A fine series of them forms a great ornament to 

 a collection. 



Subfamily 2. APID^E (Normal Bees), Latreille. 



Syn. APIS, Kirby. 



Tongue always folded back in repose. 

 Maxillary palpi varying in the number of the joints. 



Section 1. Solitary. 

 Subsection 1. SCOPULIPEDES (brush-legged). 



a. Femoriferce (collectors on entire leg). 

 f With ttvo suhmarginal cells to the wings. 



Genus 9. PANURGUS, Panzer. 



(Plate VI. fig. 1 <? ? .) 



APIS * a, Kirby. 



Gen. Char.: HEAD transversely subquadrate; ocelli 

 in a triangle on the vertex, which, as well as the face, is 

 convex, the latter between the antennae carinated as far 

 as the clypeus; antennae short, subclavate, the second 

 joint of the flagellum considerably the longest, the re- 

 mainder equal ; clypeus slightly convex ; labrum trans- 

 versely quadrate, convex ; mandibles acutely unidentate ; 

 cibarial apparatus long; tongue half its entire length, 

 gradually acute, and fringed laterally with delicate hair ; 

 paraglossae slender, acute, membranous, not quite half 

 the length of the tongue ; labial palpi more than half 



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