BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 175 



Apis centuncularis, ScJircml:, Ins. Just. p. 404. 815. 



Schaff. Icon. t. 262. f. 6, 7. 



Rossij Faun. Etrusc. no. 927. 



Kirbyj Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 237. 42. 

 Megachile ceiituiicularis, Latr. Hist. Nat. Crast, et Ins. iii, 383; 

 Hist. Nat, xiv. 56. 10. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. fasc. i. 142. 10. 



St. Farg. Ilym. ii. 337. 12. t. 21. f. 3 ? . 



Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim. 449. t. 73. f. 7. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 695. 7. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 258. 4. 

 Anthopliora centiincularis, Fahr. Sysf. Piez. p. 378. 25 $ , nee $ . 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 465. 3. 

 Reaum. Ins. vi. Mem. iv. t. 10. f. 2, 3, 4. 

 Frisch. Ins, pt. xi. t. 2. f. 1-4. 

 Geoff. Ins. Par. ii. 410. 5. 



Female. Length 3^-6 lines. — Black ; the fa^e has a pale ful- 

 vous puhcscence, that on the vertex fuscous and sparing ; the 

 mandibles quadridentate^ the two apical ones acute; the head 

 and thorax closely and strongly punctured. Thorax : the disk 

 nearly naked, having a few scattered fuscous hairs, on the sides 

 and nietathorax it is more dense and pale fulvous ; the legs 

 have a thin short cinereous puhescence, the tarsi fulvous be- 

 neath ; the calcaria and claws rufo-testaceous ; the wings sub - 

 hyaline, faintly clouded towards their apical margins. Abdo- 

 men cordate, having a scattered pale pubescence at the base, 

 the margins of the segments depressed ; the segments have a 

 narrow fringe of pale pubescence on their apical margins, that 

 on the fifth entire ; beneath densely covered with bright golden- 

 fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 3|— 4^ lines. — The head a little wider than the 

 thorax, the face clothed with bright pale fulvous pubescence, 

 nearly white on the clypeus ; antennae filiform ; mandibles bi- 

 dentate, the apical tooth acute ] the thorax above and the wings 

 as in the other sex, the anterior coxa3 not toothed ; the claws 

 ferruginous, their tips fuscous. Abdomen subelongate, the 

 apex obtuse ; the margin of the apical segment entire, obsoletely 

 subserrate; the seventh seo;ment concealed. B.M. 



This is perhaps the most widely distributed bee in the whole 

 family of Apidcs ; it is not only found in all parts of the United 

 Kingdom, but is spread all over the continent of Europe, even to 

 the north of Lapland ; it is also found in Canada and at Hud- 

 eon's Bay. The only British species which has similar clothing in 

 the female is M, maritima, but if the colour of the pollen-brush 

 be examined, they cannot easily be confounded; M. centuncu- 



