BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 14? 



This species appears to be rare : two specimens were captured 

 in Yorkshire, and a male and female in Hampshire. The Lin- 

 naean typical specimen has been very carefully examined, and 

 the form of the ventral plates has been drawn from it. This 

 insect is common, Dr. Nylander informs us, in Denmark and 

 Finland ; he described it as a new species in his work on the 

 Northern Bees. Probably it is not uncommon in the north of 

 England ; the only examples which I captured when in Yorkshire 

 proved to be the Linnsean species. 



2. Ccelioxys simplex. 



C. atra ; scutello utrinque dente incurvo armato, margine pos- 

 tico subangulato ; abdominis segmento apicali elongate, pro- 

 ducto, semilanceolato. 



Apis conica, Kirly, Mon. Ap. Angl ii. 224. 37. t. 16. f. 7 ? , 8 <? . 

 Ccelioxys simplex, Nyland. Revis.Ap. Boreal, p. 279. 6. 

 Coelioxys mandibularis, Nyland. Au. tioreai. p. 252. 3 (var. $ ?). 

 Ccelioxys conica, Curtis, Brit. Ent. viii. p. 349. 1. f. 6* $ , 7* $ 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black ; the head and thorax have a 

 pale fulvous pubescence, the eyes pubescent ; the wings fusco- 

 hyaline, their apical margins having a fuscous cloud ; the pos- 

 terior margin of the thorax subangular, armed on each side 

 with a short slightly bent tooth ; the abdomen shining, and 

 having large scattered punctures, the apex of the sixth segment 

 closely and finely punctured, subopake, and indistinctly cari- 

 nated down the centre ; the ventral plate elongated, narrow, 

 lanceolate, and produced considerably beyond the upper 

 plate. B.M. 



ft. Having the mandibles geniculated (var. ?). 



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This species is very widely distributed ; it is the most abun- 

 dant of the genus in the vicinity of London. The male next de- 

 scribed probably belongs to it. 



3. Coelioxys sponsa. 



C. atra, hirsuto-cinerea ; scutello utrinque minute dente incurvo 

 armato, margine postico rotundato ; abdominis apice multi- 

 dentato. 



Male. Length 3-4i lines. Black ; the head a little wider than 

 the thorax, the face having a yellowish-white pubescence, that 

 on the clvpeus silvery. Thorax : the posterior margin of the 



