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cence. Abdomen short, blunt at the apex, thinly clothed with 

 long pale pubescence, intermixed with fuscous towards the 

 apex ; the apical margin of the sixth segment emarginate, and 

 its inflexed margin having an angular tooth on each side ; the 

 seventh segment has a single central obtuse tooth. E.M. 



This species is local, and is not often met with near London ; 

 its colonies are formed in sunny banks : it is plentiful in Hamp- 

 shire and in many parts of Surrey. It has not been received 

 from the north of England. 



8. MegachHe Willughbiella. 



M. fulvescenti-pubescens ; abdomine brevi, ano nigro; antennis 



maris articulo ultimo compresso, dilatato ; tarsis anterioribus 

 dilatato-ciliatis, 



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Apis Willughbiella, Kirbi/, Mon. Jp. AngL ii. 233. 41. 

 Megacliile Willughbiella, Latr. Hist, Nat. xiv. 57. 11, 



Curtis^ Brit, Ent. iv. t. 218. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 333. 5. 



Srnith, Zool. ii. 691. L 



Nyland, Ap. Boreal p. 256. 2 (? , not the ? , 

 Megacliile fulviventris, Zett, Ins. Lapip. p. 465. 2. 

 The Willow Bee, Ray's Letters, p. 72, 74. 



Female, Length Q-"] hues.— Black : head as wide as the thorax, 

 the face clothed with dark fulvous pubescence, the vertex with 

 black, and the cheeks with pale ochraceous ; the mandibles 

 stout, prominent and quadridentate, the two apical teeth acute, 

 the inner pair obtuse. Thorax shining ; above, clothed with a 

 rufo-fulvous pubescence, at the sides and beneath it is paler ; 

 the wings subhyaline, the apical margins faintlv clouded, the 

 nervures and tegulse black ; the legs have a" short fulvous 

 pubescence, that on the tarsi beneath ferruginous, the calcaria 

 and claws ferruginous, the latter black at their tips. Abdomen 

 subcordate ; the three basal segments have a pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence, that on the apical segments is much shorter, and black ; 

 the fourth and fifth segments have a narrow fringe of white 

 pubescence; the pollen-brush on the abdomen beneath is black 

 at the sides and at the apex, and fulvous in the middle. B.M. 



Male, Length 5-6 lines.— The face has a pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence, that on the clypeus very bright and ghttering; the an- 

 tennse half the length of the thorax, the apical joint compressed. 



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