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a little longer than the palpi. The maxillary palpi six-jointed, 

 each joint gradually decreasing in length. The ocelli placed 

 in a slight curve on the vertex. The superior wings have one 

 marginal and two submarginal cells; the second submarginal 

 receiving the two recurrent nervures, the first just within at the 

 base, the second at a little more than one-third from its apex. 



1. Dasypoda hirtipes. 



D. atra, pallide villosa; pedibus posticis fulvo longissime lanatis; 

 abdomine fasciis tribus albidis. 



Anclrena hirtipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 312. 24 ? . 

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

 Andrena plumipes, Panz. Faun. Germ. 46. 16. 

 Apis farfarisequa, Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 14 $ . 

 Dasypoda hirta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. S36. 2. 

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

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

 'St. Farg. Hym. ii. 229. 1. t. 22. f. 1 ? , 2 $ . 



Smith, Zool. vi. 2241. 1. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 225. 1. 

 Trachusa hirtipes, Jurine, Hym. p. 250. 

 Dasypoda plumipes, Leach, Edin. Encycl. ix. 155. 

 Dasypoda Swammerdamella, Curtis, Brit. Ent. viii. t. 367 $ ? . 



Female. Length 6-7 lines. Black ; the pubescence on the face 

 below the insertion of the antennae cinereous, above it is black, 

 sparing on the vertex. Thorax : the pubescence on the middle 

 of the disk black surrounded with fulvous, on the sides and 

 beneath it is very pale ; beneath, densely clothed with cine- 

 reous pubescence ; wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical 

 margins, the nervures rufo-piceous ; the anterior and interme- 

 diate tarsi have the basal joint above clothed with fuscous pu- 

 bescence, beneath it is fulvous ; the scopa very long, dense and 

 bright fulvous. Abdomen subovate, at the base a little cine- 

 reous pubescence, the three intermediate segments have a 

 fascia of white pubescence on their apical margins, the first in- 

 terrupted ; the apical fimbria sooty-black. 



Male. Length 5-6^ lines. The pubescence on the clypeus, 

 cheeks, thorax beneath, and the fringe of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora white ; on the vertex and thorax above it is 

 fulvous; the legs have a long pale fulvous pubescence; the 

 wings subhyaline, the nervures and tegulae ferruginous ; the 

 tarsi have the claw-joint rufo- testaceous. Abdomen ovate Ian- 



