HYMENOPTERA. 149 
the two lateral of which are very short, and in the form of auricles, 
Most of the females collect the pollen of flowers with the hairs of 
their posterior legs, and with the aid ofa little honey form it into a 
paste (bee-bread), with which they feed their larve. They excavate 
deep holes, and frequently in hard ground, along the borders of 
roads, or in the fields, in which they place this paste along with an 
egg; they then close the aperture with earth. 
In some the middle division of the ligula is enlarged at its extre- 
mity, almost cordiform, and folded when at rest. 
Hy.zvus, Fab.—Prosopis, Jur. 
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Sometimes the body is glabrous, and the secorid and third joints of 
the antenne are almost of the same length. The superior wings 
present but two complete cubital cells. These Insects, being desti- 
tute of hairs, collect no pollen, and appear to deposit their ova in the 
nests of other Hymenoptera of this family. They are the HyLzus 
proper of Latreille and Fabricius(1). 
The others have a hairy body, and the third joint of the antennz 
longer than the second. The superior wings have three complete 
cubital cells. The females collect their stores from flowers. I dis- 
tinguish them by the generic name of 
CoLLeTeEs, Lat. 
Such for instance is the 
C. glutineux; Apis succincta, L.3 or the Abeille dont le nid est 
fait despéces de membranes soyeuses of Reaumur, Insect., VI, xii. 
Small; black, with whitish hairs; those on the thorax, russet; 
abdomen ovoid, and the posterior margin of its annuli covered 
with a white down, forming bands. The male—Evodia calen- 
darum, Panz.—has longer antenne. The female makes a cy- 
lindrical hole in the ground, and smears its parietes with a 
gummy fluid, which may be compared to the viscid and glossy 
slime of a Snail. In this she piles a series of cells composed of 
the same material, resembling a thimble in shape, each contain- 
ing an egg and some of the paste before mentioned(2). 
The other Andrenete are distinguished from the preceding ones 
by the lanceolate figure of the ligula. 
(1) Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, p. 149. 
(2) Lat., Ibid. 
