some Bees from British (ialana. 455 



^legacfitle ha m at i pes, sp. ii. 



^ , — Length about 11 mm., anterior wing 9 mm. 



Black, robust, with short parallel-sided abdomen ; licad 



large ; eyes dark brown ; face and front densely covered 



with long silky golden hair ; mandibles dark, with a broad 



flat dull and delicately pruinose-pubescent base, beyond 



which is a tuft of fulvous hair; cheeks broad, with white 



liair ; antenna? black, the flagellum obscurely reddisli 



beneath ; vertex with erect black hair ; mesothorax dullish_, 



closely and finely punctured, with erect black hair on disc, 



but the thorax anteriorly is covered with pale yellowish hair_, 



there is a conspicuous band in the scutello-mesothoracic 



suture, and a large yellowish tuft at each posterior corner 



of mesothorax ; scutellum shining anteriorly, covered with 



erect black hair; thorax posteriorly with yellowish hair; 



sternal region with white hair; tegulse black. Wings dilute 



fuliirinous, u])per half of marginal cell distinctly darker ; 



first recur lent nervure joining second sunmarginal cell at a 



distance from base equal to not quite half length of inter- 



cubitus. Legs mainly black, anterior coxa? with long spines; 



anterior femora pale reddish_, with a curved brown line on 



inner face, apex and nearly apical half of outer side black, 



lower margin beyond middle sharply and prominently keeled, 



outer surface (especially basally) with long cream-coloured 



hair ; anterior tibiae red on inner side and black on outer, 



except, apex, which is yellow ; anterior tarsi dilated, pale 



yellow, the broadest part at apex of basitarsus, which does 



not extend nearly to end of second joint ; tarsal fringe long, 



fulvous at base, otherwise white, broadly black apically ; 



beneath, the small joints are red, and the black spot does 



not show through above ; middle tibise thick, red passing 



into pale yellow apically, with a stout pale apical hook-like 



spine ; their tarsi dark red, the basitarsi black behind, and. 



outer face of tarsi largely pale yellow ; hind femora not 



especially swollen, their tibiie black, with pale reddish spurs, 



their tarsi pale yellow on outer side. Abdomen with deep 



sulci at bases of second and third segments; all the segments 



with fringes of fulvous hair, the first very slender except at 



sides ; disc of second segment with erect fulvous hair, 



passing into black laterally ; discs of third and fourth with 



erect black hair, of fifth with deep red hair; sixth segment 



densely covered with pale yellow tomentum, its apical keel 



])rominent, broadly and deeply emarginate, the lateral 



portions not dentate or crev^ulate; no ventral spines or teeth. 



