206 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



on the thorax beneath is cinereous; the legs have a short cine- 

 reous pubescence, that on the posterior tibiae and intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi above is white ; the tarsi beneath fulvous, 

 the calcaria testaceous, the claws ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, 

 very faintly clouded at their apical margins. Abdomen sub- 

 globose, the margins of the segments fringed with fulvo-ochra- 

 ceous pubescence ; between the fasciae the pubescence is fuscous, 

 that at the apex black. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black ; the scape in front, the clypeus, 

 a transverse line above, the face on each side, the labrum, and 

 a spot at the base of the mandibles, yellow ; the clypeus has 

 on each side at its base an angular black spot, and the labrum 

 a minute round dot; in other respects it closely resembles 

 the female ; the femora clavate, the intermediate pair most 

 thickly so. B.M. 



In Mr. Kirby's own interleaved copy of the ' Monographia ' 

 was found a query as to whether this species was not the 4-ma- 

 culata of Fabricius ; all doubt however has been removed by Dr. 

 Nylander, who saw that species in the Museum at Kiel. Mr. Kirby 

 had also made a note to the effect that his subglobosa might be 

 the female : this is in accordance with my own observation in the 

 ' Zoologist.' A. quadrimaculata is a local insect, but it is met 

 with in the vicinity of London ; in the Battersea and Kentish 

 Town Fields, it occurs plentifully during the month of July ; it 

 commonly frequents the Red Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum), 

 and flies with great rapidity, in many respects resembling Saro- 

 poda bimaculata, particularly in its shrill piping hum. This bee 

 burrows in banks. 



4. Anthophora furcata. 



A. corpore nigro, griseo-pubescenti ; facie antice, labio, anoque, 

 villoso-ferrugineis. Mas, corpore atro, cinereo-pubescenti ; 

 facie antice, labioque, flavis ; abdomine apice furcato. 



Apis furcata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 56. 8 $ . 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 288. 64 $ $ . t. 17. f. 5 $ , 6 $ . 

 Anthophora furcata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 82. 49. 

 Saropoda furcata, Curtis, Brit. Ent. viii. 361. 



Smith, Zool. iii. 893. 3. 

 Megilla furcata, Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 245. 4. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black ; the pubescence on the labrum 

 obscure ferruginous, that on the face fuscous, intermixed with 



