BEKS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 167 



primo, in mare etfcemina fulvo-villosis ; auo in mare integro; 

 facie subcinerea. 



Osmia parietina, Curtis, Brit. Enf. v. t. 222 ? . 



Smith, Zool ii. 743. 4 ? ; Cat, Hym. AcuL Append, p. 123 3* . 



Female, Length 4 lines. — Black : the face clothed with long 

 pale fulvous pubescence, at the insertion of the antennae it is 

 brio'hter, as well as that on the margin of the vertex ; the cly- 

 peus produced and truncate anteriorly. Thorax densely clothed 

 with rather long rich rufo-fulvous pubescence ; wings subhya- 

 line, and having a fuscous cloud at their apical margins, and a 

 dark fuscous stain on the exterior margin of the marginal cell ; 

 the nervures fusco-ferruginous ; the pubescence on the legs 

 above black, intermixed with pale fulvous on the tarsi, which 

 are of a reddish-brown beneath ; the claws ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men shining and very delicately punctured, the basal segment 

 thinly clothed with fulvous pubescence ; beneath densely 

 clothed with black pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 3-3-^- lines. — Head and thorax brassy-black, the 

 face below the antenna?, and the cheeks, covered with long 

 white pubescence, that on the vertex is thin and ferruginous ; 

 the thorax clothed above with rufo-fulvous pubescence; be- 

 neath, as well as on the legs, it is hoary ; wings as in the other 

 sex. Abdomen subglobose, shining and delicately punctured, the 

 basal segment clothed with long, erect, pale pubescence, on the 

 following segments it is shorter and black ; the sixth segment 

 entire, the seventh concealed^ notched in the middle. B.M, 



This little bee was first taken by Mr. Curtis, some years 

 ago, at Ambleside, on the banks of Windermere, in Westmore- 

 land ; for twenty years subsequently no person met with it, 

 until it was rediscovered in 1850 on the Grampians, in Perth- 

 shire ; it is a beautiful species, and doubtless extremely local ; 

 it has also been captured at Loch Rannoch. 



6. Osmia pilicornis. 



0. aterrima, villosa ; capite, thorace abdominisque segmentis 

 duobus basalibus in f(Emina fulvo-villosis ; antennis in mare 



subtus ciliatis ; capite, thoi'ace abdomineque cinereo-hirsutis; 

 ano emarginato. 



Osmia pilicornis, Smith, Zool. iv- 1567 <J $ . 



Female. Length A-A\ lines. — Black; the face has a thinly 

 scattered black pubescence, the head is closely punctured, the 

 clypeus coarsely so, slightly produced, its anterior margin trun- 



