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BEES OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



I'UgUlOUS. 



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sertion of the antennge. Thorax : the disk thinly covered wit{t 

 pale ochraceous pubescence, at the sides and beneath it is hoary 5 

 the scutellum rounded behind, and armed on each side with a 

 small acute tooth; the wings fusco-hyaline, palest towards 

 their base, the nervures fuscous ; the legs have a short gri- 

 seous pubescence, the calcaria pale testaceous, the claws fer- 



Abdomen subglobose, shining, and strongly punc- 

 tured, the margins of the segments slightly depressed; beneath 

 densely clothed with fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 3 lines. — Black, very closely punctured ; the face 

 densely clothed with pale yellow pubescence; the antenn 

 filiform, a little longer than the head. Thorax having a sparing 

 pale ochraceous pubescence ; wings as in the female ; the apical 

 joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen incurved, the sixth 

 segment having a series of minute spines on its apical margin; 

 the seventh segment armed with a short tooth in the centre of 

 its apical margin ; beneath, and the basal segment, armed with 

 a stout acute spine. B.M. 



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This little bee is not uncommon during July and August in 

 some localities; Mr. S. Stevens has taken it in Sussex, audit 

 has frequently occurred in various parts of Kent and Hamp- 

 shire ; it is plentiful at the landslip, Luccomb Chine, Isle of 

 Wight, in July, and may be found reposing in a species of 

 Hieracium in company with Panurgus calcaratus. It does not 

 occur in the London district. It is easily distinguished from all 



the other species. 



9. Osmia aenea. 



0. corpore foemince ca^rulesccnti, albido-subpubescenti ; ventre 

 lana atra dense vcstito : corpore maris icnco, fulvo-pubescenti. 



ano bidentato. 



Nat I 995. 



Apis a?nea, Linn* Faim> Siiec, p. 421. 1695 ; Si/st, 

 20 cT . 



Scop. Ent, Cam. p. 303. 809. 

 Apis ca^iulescens, Linn. Faun. Siiec. p. 421. 1G96 $ ; Si/st. hiat 

 995. 21 ? . 



Kirby, Mon. Jp. Angl ii. 264. 55 J ? . 

 Andrena ca^rulescens, Fair. Sijst. Ent. p. 376. 2 $ . 



Rossi, Faun. Etrusc, ii. 86. 893. 



Panz, Faun. Germ, 65. 18. 

 Andrena aenea, Rossi, Faun. Etrusc, ii. 96. 894 $ . 



Panz, Faun, Germ. 56. 3. 

 Anthophora senea, Fabr. Syst, Piez. p. 381. 40. 



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