184 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



gopoda as having filiform antennge; such however is not the 

 case. Dr. Nylander has forwarded specimens of the true lago- 

 poda^ which are quite distinct from ilf . maritima. 



This species is very local; it has been once taken at Hamp- 

 stead, but the back of the Isle of Wight is its metropolis; 

 during the month of July it abounds in Sandown Bay, in com- 

 pany with its parasite, Ccelioxys Vectis : numbers of the females 

 were observed cutting off portions of the leaves of a species of 

 Scdix, 



Genus 9. ANTHIDIUM. 



Apis, pt., Linn. Syst, Nat, i. 953 (1766), '■ 



Megachile, pt., Lair, Hist. Nat. xiv. 51 (1805). 

 Anthidium, Fahr, Syst. Piez. p. 364 (1804). 

 Trachusa, pt., Jurine^ 252 (1809). 



The body usually adorned with yellow spots or stripes. Head 

 nearly as wide as the thorax ; the ocelU placed in a triangle for- 

 ward on the vertex ; the antennae filiform, the basal joint of the 

 flagellum obconical. The mentum linear, elongate and pointed 

 at its apex; the labium elongate, blunt at its apex and chan- 

 neled down the middle, one-third longer than the palpi; the 

 latter four-jointed, the^first and second joints elongate, gradually 

 narrowed from the base to the apex ; the two apical joints mi- 

 nute, placed at the side and near the apex of the second joint. 

 The maxillary palpi consisting of one joint, placed on a cup- 

 shaped basal tubercle (or joint?) ; the apical lobe of the maxilla; 

 sickle-shaped. The superior wings having one marginal and two 

 submarginal cells, the second submarginal cell receiving the first 

 recurrent ncrvure a little within at the base, the second recm'- 

 rent nervure uniting with the second transverse nervure. Ab- 



domen incurved, furnished with a dense pollen-brush beneath in 

 the females ; the males having the apex armed with spines. 



Although the species belonging to this genus are numerous, 

 and are found both in the Old and New World, there is only 

 one found in this country, Anthidium manicatum ; this is truly 

 a summer bee, not making its appearance before the latter 

 part of June or beginning of July. This insect, as far as 



