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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 205 



Male. Length 7-8 lines. — Black ; the scape in front, the cly- 

 peus, and face on each side, a transverse line above the clypeus, 

 the labrum, and a spot at the base of the mandibles, yellow ; 

 a black spot on each side at the base of the labrum and clypeus ; 

 the vertex, thorax above, and two basal segments of the*^ abdo- 

 men clothed with fulvous pubescence, that on the thorax be- 

 neath cinereous ; the intermediate legs elongate, the basal 

 joint of their tarsi having a short thick black fringe at the apex 

 in front, and having, as well as the three following joints, a thin 

 fringe of long black hair behind, the apical joint fringed with 

 long black hair on both sides ; the posterior tibiae have a white 

 fringe on their hinder margin; the apical segments of the ab- 

 lomen clothed with black pubescence ; the calcaria black. 



B.M. 



This species is found in all parts of the United Kingdom ; in 

 some situations it literally swarms. There is a colony of this 



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bee in the chalk-pits at Northfleet, of such amazing extent, that 

 in the middle of April a dark flickering shadow is cast on the 

 ground from the countless numbers assembled. There can be 

 little doubt of the present species being the wild bee, alluded 

 to by Gilbert White in his ' History of Selborne,' which made 

 its nests in the chalky soil, amidst the trenches of the Danish 

 Camp, on Mount Carburn near Lewes. White describes the 

 bee as dashing round the heads of intruders, with a sharp and 

 hostile sound, — the very habit oi AnthopJiora acervorum. 



3. Anthophora qiiadrimaculaia. 



A, atra, palhdo-villosa ; thorace flavescenti ; abdominis segmentis 



palhdo marginatis. Bias, femoribus intermediis magnis, cla- 

 vatis. 



Apis 4-maculata, Panz. Faun, Germ, 55. 7. 

 Apis vulpina, Kirbi/, Mon. Ap, Angl, ii. 290. 65 c? . 

 Apis subglobosa, Kirhy, Mon, Ap, Angl, ii. 295. 68 ? . 

 Megilla 4-niaculata, Fabr, Syst, Piez. p, 33L 14. 



Nyland. Ap, Boreal, p. 244. 3. 

 Anthophora quadrimaculata, Sf. Farg, Hym, ii. 84. 5L 

 Saropoda vulpina, Curtis, Brit, Ent. viii. 361. 



Smith, Zool iii. 892 ^ ? . 



Female, Length 4| lines, — Black ; the pubescence on the 

 face fuscous, on each side anteriorly is a little short cine- 

 reous pubescence, that on the vertex is black ; on the disk of 

 the thorax it is fulvo-ochraceous, the tips of the hairs black; 

 on the metathorax the pubescence is pale fulvo-ochraceous, that 



