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the female; the claw-joint of the tarsi larger than in the other 

 sex, and dark rufo-piceous ; the pubescence on the sides of the 

 thorax, metathorax, and base of the abdomen pale fulvous ; all 

 the segments have a narrow fascia of short pubescence of the 

 same colour. B.M. 



This species is not found in the immediate vicinity of London. 

 Mr. Kirby observes that he met with it in " a sunny sand-pit 

 near Coomb Wood : " that locality has been searched on many 

 occasions, but without success. It is taken at Weybridge, at 

 Hawley, and other places in Hants, in which county it is very 

 plentiful ; it is found in the greatest abundance in Sandown Bay, 

 Isle of Wight, where it literally abounds in the month of July. 

 The Apis rotundata of Kirby is A. bimaculata in fine condition. 



Genus 15. AKTHOPHOPJL 



Apis, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 953 (1766). 

 Megilla, pt., Fair. Syst. Piez. p. 328 (1804). 

 Lasius, pt., Jurine, Hym. p. 235 (1807). 



Anthophora, Lair. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. 167 (1803) ; Gen. 

 Crust, et Ins. iv. 174 (1809). 



Head transverse, broad, the eyes wide apart ; viewed in front, 

 subtrigonate ; ocelli placed in a triangle on the vertex ; the an- 

 tennae have the scape short, about equal in length to the first 

 joint of the ftagellum, the radical or intervening joint globose; 

 the first joint of the flagellum elavate, beyond which it is filiform, 

 the joints being of about equal length ; the labrum subquadrate, 

 rounded anteriorly. The labial palpi four-jointed, the basal 

 joint thrice the length of the second joint; the two apical joints 

 minute, placed at the side and near the apex of the second joint, 

 which is pointed at its apex ; the tongue one-third longer than 

 the palpi, pubescent, particularly towards the apex ; the para- 

 glossse short and lanceolate. Maxillary palpi six-jointed, the 

 basal joint short and stout, the second stouter and longer than 

 the third, the rest each shorter than the preceding. The ante- 

 rior wings with one marginal and three submarginal cells ; the 

 second submarginal narrow r ed towards the marginal, and receiving 

 the first recurrent nervure a little beyond the middle, the third 

 submarginal of nearly equal width ; the second recurrent nervure 

 uniting with the apical nervure of the third submarginal cell ; 



