124 HYMENOPTERA. 



the base, narrowing towards the apex, which is furnished with 

 an anal fimbria. 



Obs. The situation of this fine insect is not probably that at 

 present assigned to it ; but the only specimen known is in the 

 National Collection, and those parts of the oral organs which 

 might determine it could not be sufficiently examined. The 

 name of the genus sufficiently indicates its general appearance, 

 and seems to point out its situation. 



1. MEGACILISSA SUPERBA, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 9i lines. Black, the face densely clothed 

 with white pubescence, on the vertex it is black, arid the poste- 

 rior margin of the vertex is fringed with white ; the apex of the 

 labrum ferruginous, and covered with stiff ferruginous hairs. 

 Thorax above clothed with bright fulvous pubescence ; on the 

 sides, beneath, and on the anterior femora beneath it is w r hite, 

 there is also a little white on the intermediate tibise, the scopa 

 very dense and of a dull brown, otherwise the legs are thickly 

 covered with short black pubescence ; the basal segment of the 

 abdomen clothed with fulvous pubescence, that on the three 

 following segments is short and black, having a white fascia on 

 their apical margins, the fifth and sixth covered with long black 

 pubescence, the latter naked in the middle ; beneath black. 

 Hob. Not known. 



Genus 30. DASYPODA. 



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



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



Melitta, pt., Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. i. 140, * * e (1802). 



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



1. DASYPODA HIRTIPES. B.M. 



Andrena 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. 336. 2. 



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



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



Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 335. 1. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 229. 1. 1. 22. f. 1 ? , 2 <? . 



Smith, Zoologist, vi. 2241. 1. 



Nyland. Apum Boreal. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. i. 225. 1. 



