5. cilissa. 77 



2. Cilissa leporina. 



C. atra, pallide pubescens, antennis subtus pedibusque rufo-tes- 

 taceis ; abdominis segmentis f asciis tribus angustis pallidis. 



Cilissa leporina, Smith, Bees Great Brit. 110 <$ $ . 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 6Q. 

 Apis leporina, Panz. Faun. Germ. 63. 21 £ . 

 Anthophora leporina, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 374. 

 Melitta tricincta, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 171 $ . 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 213. 

 Cilissa tricincta, Leach, Fdin. Encycl. ix. 155. 



Smith, Zool. vi. 2208. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 267. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 209. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 66. 

 Kirbya tricincra, St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 145. 



Nyland. lib. cit. ii. 102. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black ; the face clothed witlT short pale 

 fulvous pubescence, that on the vertex black ; the fiagellum, except 

 the ba^al joint, rufo-piceous beneath. Thorax : in the middle of 

 the disk the pubescence is black, but sparing, surrounding which 

 it is dense and fulvous ; at the sides of the metathorax it is paler ; 

 the anterior femora, the coxse, and trochanters are covered beneath 

 with long dense cinereous pubescence ; the pubescence on the legs 

 above is pale fulvous, and on the tarsi beneath ferruginous ; the 

 legs dark rufo-piceous, the claws pale testaceous ; the wings 

 hyaline, their apical margins faintly clouded, the nervures and 

 tegulse rufo-rjiceous. Abdomen ovate and shining ; the base has a 

 thin pale pubescence ; the apical margins of the first and three fol- 

 lowing segments have a fascia of pale fulvous pubescence; the 

 apical fimbria black. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — The face densely clothed with bright pale 

 fulvous pubescence; the fiagellum beneath, except the extreme 

 base, fulvo-piceous ; the joints submoniliform : the thorax has a 

 fulvous pubescence intermingled with black hairs in the middle of 

 the disk; the wings and legs as in the other sex. Abdomen 

 oblong-ovate; the two basal segments have a thin pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; on the other segments it is black, each having a fringe 

 of pale fulvous pubescence ; on the apical segment the pubescence 

 is black in the middle, and pale fulvous at the sides. B.M. 



This species appears in July, and is frequently found on the white 

 Dutch clover (Trifolium repens), also, according to Prof. Schenck, on 

 Meclicago sativa (the lucerne). It is by no means a common insect, 

 although occasionally it is taken rather freely ; it occurs to the south 

 of London, at Gravesend, Greenhithe, and Erith ; also Blackwater, 

 Hants ; at Deal and at Norwich. I once found a small colony bur- 

 rowing in sandy soil at Hampstead. 



