110 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



disk clothed with black pubescence, around which it is fulvous, 

 on the sides and beneath it is paler; legs dark rufo-piceous, 

 their pubescence short and fulvous, the scopa bright fulvous, 

 the tarsi beneath ferruginous, the apical joint pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apical mar- 

 gins, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, 

 subdepressed, at the base a little pale pubescence ; the apical 

 margins of the intermediate segments have a very narrow fringe 

 of white pubescence, frequently more or less obliterated, the 

 fifth and sixth segments densely clothed with golden-fulvous 

 pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 4-5 lines. The face densely clothed with bright 

 pale fulvous pubescence; antennae subdentate beneath, not 

 quite so long as the thorax, the apex of each joint of the flagel- 

 lum produced beneath. Thorax : the middle of the disk 

 having a thin black pubescence, the rest of thorax densely 

 clothed with pale fulvous, the legs have a similar clothing, 

 the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous; wings subhyaline, 

 faintly clouded at their margins, the nervures ferruginous. 

 Abdomen elongate-ovate, convex, the two basal segments have 

 a thin pale pubescence, on the following it is black, intermixed 

 at the sides with pale fulvous hairs. B.M. 



This is a very local insect ; it is not uncommon however about 

 Shirley, near Croydon ; in the month of August, it may be found 

 where the blue-bells grow, for it does not appear to frequent any 

 other flower ; I have also met with it at Hawley, Hants ; Mr. 

 Walcott has found it in abundance near Bristol. 



2. Cilissa leporina. 



C. atra, pallide pubescens, antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis ; 

 abdominis segmentis distincte ciliatis. 



Apis leporina, Panz. Faun. Germ. fasc. 63. 22 <j> . 

 Anthophora leporina, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 374. 7. 

 Melitta tricincta, Kirby, Man. Ap. Anyl. ii. 171. 109. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 213. 1. 

 Cilissa tricincta, Leach, Edin, Encycl. ix. p. 155. 



Smith, Zool. vi. 2208. 2 <J ? . 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal Revis. p. 267. 1. 

 Kirby a tricincta, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 145. 1 ! 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal. Supp. 102 $ . 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black ; the face clothed with short 

 pale fulvous pubescence, that on the vertex black ; the flagellum, 



