INSECTA. 357 



or not at all produced; second joint inserted into the middle of 

 apex of former. 



t Labial palps different in form from maxillary, with two large 

 basal joints compressed, dilated. 



Nomada ScoPOLi, FABR. Mandibles small, narrow, unidentate 

 or edentulous. Cubital cells in some three, in others two. 



Sub-genera : Oxea KLUG, Crocisa JUEINE, LATE., Melecta LATE., 

 Pasites JUEINE, Epeolus LATE., Phileremus LATE., Ammobates 

 LATE. 



Sp. Nomada succincta PANZ., Deutschl. Ins., Heft 55, Tab. 21 ; Nomada 

 Roberjeotiana PANZER, ibid. Heft 72, Tab. 19, &c. 



Comp. HEKEICH SCH^SFFEE, Auseinandersetzung der europdischen Arten 

 einiger Bienengattungen, in GEBMAE'S Zeitschr. f. die Entomol. I. i. 1839 

 s. 267 288 ; the same in his continuation of PANZEE'S Deutschl. Ins. 

 Heft 1 66 and 176. 



Megachile LATE. (Anthophora FABR., Phyllotoma DUMER.) 

 jabrum elongate, inflected, porrect below under the mandibles, 

 andibles broad, dentate or narrow, porrect, bidentate at apex, 

 pubital cells mostly two. 



i. With two cubital cells. 



a] With abdomen smooth or only downy, not pollinigerous. 



Sub-genera : Coelioxys LATE., Stelis PANZEE, LATE. 



b) With abdomen in females provided beneath with long setae forming 

 brushes for collecting pollen. 



* With abdomen oval or triangular. 

 Antkidium FABE., LATE. Maxillary palps with single joint. 



Comp. LATEEILLE, M6moire sur le genre d'Anthidie : Annales du Mu- 

 xin. 1809, pp. 2953 : pp. 207234, PI. i. 



Sub-genera: Osmia PANZEE (Trachusa JUEINE, in part, Osmia 

 and Anthocopa LEPELET.), Lithurgus LATE,, Megachile LATE. (Chali- 

 codoma LEPELET.) Maxilliary palps with two to four joints. 



Sp. Megachile centuncularis, Apis centuncularis L., DUMBE. Cons. gen. s. I. 

 Ins. PL 29, fig. 3, GUEEIN Iconogr. Ins. PL 73, fig. 7. These bees cut 

 pieces off rose-leaves, which they stick together and form into cases rolled 

 artfully together in form of thimbles. They arrange several of these cases 

 behind one another in a row, and lay in each of them an egg and a supply 

 of food for the larva. See EEAUMUE, Ins. VI. Mem. IV. Megachile mu- 

 raria, Xylocopa muraria FABB., REAUM. ib. Mem. in. PL 7, 8 ; G. C. 

 SCHJEFFEE, die Maurerbiene, 1764. 



