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BEES 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



a little longer than the palpi. The maxillary palpi six-jointed, 

 each joint gradually decreasing in length. The ocelli placed 

 in a slight curve on the vertex. The superior wings have one 

 marginal and two submarginal cells; the second submarginal 

 receiving the two recurrent nervures, the first just within at the 

 base, the second at a Uttle more than one-third from its apex. 



1. Dasypoda hirtipes. 



D, atra, palhde villosa; pedibus posticis fulvo longissimelanatis; 

 abdomine fasciis tribus albidis. 



Andrena hirtipes, Fahr,Ent. Si/si. ii. 312. 24 $ . 

 Apis hirta, Fadr. Ent. Syst. ii. 335. 92 $ . 

 Andrena pluniipes, Panz. Faun, Germ, 46. 16. 

 Apis farfarisequa, P«/zz. Faun, Germ, 55. \A $ . 

 Dasypoda hirta, Fabr, St/st, Piez. p. 336. 2. 

 Melitta Swammerdamella, Kirdj/, Mon, Ap. Angl ii. 174, 111, 

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

 ' St. Farg. Hym. ii. 229. 1. t. 22. f. 1 $ , 2 ^ . 



Smith, ZooL vi. 2241, 1. 



Nytand.Ap. Boreal, p. 225. 1. 

 Trachusa hirtipes, Jurine, Hym. p. 250. 

 Dasypoda pluniipes, Leach, Edin. Encycl ix.. 155. 

 Dasypoda Swammerdamella, Curtis, Brit. Ent. viii. t. 367 <? ?. 



Female. Length 6-7 hues. — Black ; the pubescence on the face 

 below the insertion of the antennae cinereous, above it is black, 

 sparing on the vertex. Thorax : the pubescence on the middle 

 of the disk black surrounded with fulvous, on the sides and 

 beneath it is very pale ; beneath, densely clothed with cine- 

 reous pubescence; wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical 

 margins, the nervures rufo-piceous ; the anterior and interme- 

 diate tarsi have the basal joint above clothed with fuscous pu- 

 bescence, beneath it is fulvous ; the scopa very long, dense and 

 bright fulvous. Abdomen subovate, at the base a little cine- 

 reous pubescence, the three intermediate segments have a 

 fascia of white pubescence on their apical margins, the first in- 

 terrupted; the apical fimbria sooty-black. 



Male. Length b-G^ lines. — The pubescence on the clypeus, 

 cheeks, thorax beneath^ and the fringe of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora white ; on the vertex and thorax above it is 

 fulvous; the legs have a long pale fulvous pubescence; the 

 wings subhyaline, the nervures and tegulse ferruginous ; the 

 tarsi have the claw-joint rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate lan- 



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