110 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



disk clothed with black pubescence, around which it is fulvous, 

 on the sides and beneath it is paler; legs dark rufo-piceous, 

 their pubescence short and fulvous, the scopa bright fulvous, 

 the tarsi beneath ferruginous, the apical joint pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their apical mar- 

 gins, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, 

 subdepressed, at the base a little pale pubescence ; the apical 

 margins of the intermediate segments have a vei*y narrow fringe 

 of white pubescence, frequently more or less obliterated, the 

 fifth and sixth segments densely clothed with golden-fulvous 

 pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 4^-5 lines. — The face densely clothed with bright 

 pale fulvous pubescence; antennae subdentate beneath, not 

 quite so long as the thorax, the apex of each joint of the flagel- 

 lum produced beneath. Thorax : the middle of the disk 

 having a thin black pubescence, the rest of thorax densely 

 clothed with pale fulvous, the legs have a similar clothing, 

 the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous; wings subhyaline, 

 faintly clouded at their margins, the nervures ferruginous. 

 Abdomen elongate-ovate, convex, the two basal segments have 

 a thin pale pubescence, on the following it is black, intermixed 

 at the sides with pale fulvous hairs. i B.M, > 



This is a very local insect ; it is not uncommon however about 

 Shii'ley, near Croydon ; in the month of August, it may be found 

 where the blue-bells grow, for it does not appear to frequent any 

 other flower; I have also met with it at Ilawley, Hants; Mr. 

 Walcott has fovmd it in abundance near Bristol. 



2. Cilissa leporina. 



C. atra, pallide pubescens, antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis; 

 abdominis segmentis distincte ciliatis. 



Apis leporina, Panz. Faun, Germ, fasc. 63. 22 $ . 

 Anthophora leporina, Fal/r, Syst, Piez. p. 374, 7. 

 Melitta tricincta, Kirby, Man, Ap. AngL ii. 171. 109. 



St, Farg, Hym. ii. 213. 1. 

 Cilissa tricincta, Leach^ Edin. Encycl, ix. p. 155. 



Smith, Zool vi. 2208. 2c??. 

 Nyland, Ap, Boreal, Revis, p. 267. 1. 

 Kirbya tricincta, St. Farg, Hym, ii. 145. 1 ! 

 JSyland, Ap, Boreal. Sapp. 102 ? . 



Female. Length 5 hnes.— Black; the face clothed with short 

 pale fulvous pubescence, that on the vertex black ; the flagellum, 



