BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. Ill 



except the basal joint, rufo-piceous beneath. Thorax : in the 

 middle of the disk the pubescence is black, but sparing, sur- 

 rounding which it is dense and fulvous; at the sides of the 

 metathorax it is paler ; the anterior femora, the coxae and tro- 

 chanters are covered beneath with long dense cinereous pubes- 

 cence ; the pubescence on the legs above is pale fulvous, and 

 on the tarsi beneath ferruginous ; the legs dark rufo-piceous, 

 the claws pale testaceous ; the wings hyaline, their apical mar- 

 gins faintly clouded, the nervures and tegulae rufo-piceous. 

 Abdomen ovate and shining, the base has a thin pale pubes- 

 cence, the apical margins of the first and three following seg- 

 ments have a fascia of pale fulvous pubescence, the apical 

 fimbria black. B.M. 



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

 pale fulvous pubescence ; the flagellum beneath, except the ex- 

 treme base, fulvo-piceous ; the joints submoniliform ; the thorax 

 has a fulvous pubescence intermingled with black hairs in the 

 middle of the disk ; the wings and legs as in the other sex. 

 Abdomen oblong-ovate, the two basal segments have a thin 

 pale fulvous pubescence, on the other segments it is black, 

 each having a fringe of pale fulvous pubescence ; on the apical 

 segment the pubescence is black in the middle and pale fulvous 

 at the sides. B.M. 



The pubescence on both species of this genus is beautifully 

 plumose. The localities known for this insect are Battersea 

 Fields, Hampstead Heath, Gravesend, Erith, Charlton, and Haw- 

 ley in Hampshire. Little doubt existed of this being the Apis 

 leporina of Panzer, as will be seen on referring to the catalogue 

 of Andrenida in the British Museum ; but Dr. Nylander has 

 seen the typical specimen of Fabricius in the museum at Kiel, 

 and his judgment may be confidently relied upon. 



Genus 8. DASYPODA. 



Andrena, pt., Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 307 (1793). 



Apis, pt., Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 335. 



Melitta, pt., Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. i. 140. t. 4**c. cont. (1802). 



Dasypoda, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 369 (1805). 



Trachusa, Jurine, p. 250. 



The labial palpi four-jointed, placed in a line, the joints sub- 

 clavate, the basal one longest and stoutest, the apical joint 

 minute ; the labiuni elongate-lanceolate, folded when in repose, 



