7. osiriA. 



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white ; the pubescence on the tibiae and tarsi fulvous, that on the 

 tarsi beneath rufo-fulvous ; the calcaria and claws rufo -testaceous ; 

 wings subhyaline, clouded towards their apex, the marginal cell 

 haying a fuscous stripe along its anterior margin ; the nervures 

 fusco-ferruginous. B.M. 



Yar. /3. Length 4 lines. — The horns on the face angular. 



Male. Length 3J-5J lines. — Strongly resembling the female ; the 

 face unarmed, clothed with long white hair ; the antennae slender 

 and filiform, nearly as long as the thorax ; the head and thorax are 

 of a blue-green, the wings as in the female ; the pubescence on the 

 disk of the thorax long and of an ochraceous tint, the legs clothed 

 as in the other sex. Abdomen densely clothed with long fulvous 

 pubescence, suberect, and arranged in fasciae ; the margin of the 

 apical segment entire. B.M. 



One of the most abundant bees found in England, forming occa- 

 sionally large colonies. Osmia cornuta is given in old lists of British 

 bees as being an indigenous species ; but no sufficient or reliable evi- 

 dence of its being so exists. Specimens are placed in the British 

 collection of bees in the British Museum, but they have no locality 

 attached to them ; the species is therefore omitted in this work. 



2. Osmia aenea. 



0. corpore femince caerulescente, albido subpubescente ; ventre lana 

 atra dense vestito; corpore maris ameo, fulvo pubescente, ano 

 bidentato. 



Osmia senea, Smith, Bees Great Brit. 170 S $ • 



Schenck, Kass. Bien. 339. 

 Apis aenea, Linn, Faun, Suec. 421 : Syst. Kat. i. 955 J . 



Scop. Ent. Cam. 303. 

 Andrena aenea, Ent. Syst. ii. 309. 



Rossi, Faun, Etrus. ii. 96. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 56. 3 S . 

 Anthophora aenea, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 381. 

 Apis cserulescens, Linn. Syst. Kat. i. 955 £ • 



Eirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 264. 

 Andrena cserulescens, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 307. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 86. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 65. 18 $ . 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 323. 

 Osmia cserulescens, Latr. Encycl. Meth. viii. 581 $ 9 . 



St.-Fary. ECym. ii. 325. 



Bridle, Hist. Kat, Canar. iii. 85. 



Smith, Zool, ii. 743. 



Lucas, Expl, Sc. Alger, iii. 190. 



Nyland. Notts, ur Sallsh. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 262. 



Gerst. Stett. ent. Zeit. (1869) 352. 



Thorns. Sym. Scand, ii. 240. 



Female. Length 3J-4| lines. — Head and thorax very closely punc- 

 tured, black, blue-black, or violet ; the head with long sparing pale 



