156 APIDiE. 



Apis xanthomelana, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 246 2 • 

 Apis tunensis, Kirby, lib. cit. 270 $ only. 

 Osmia atricapilla, Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. 223 $ . 



Waterh. Zool. ii. 403 S $ • 

 Osmia nigriventris, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 465. 



Female. Length 4|-6f lines.— Black; head as wide as the thorax, 

 the face clothed with black pubescence, intermixed with brown on 

 the margin of the vertex. Thorax clothed above with reddish 

 brown pubescence ; that on the sides beneath, and also that on the 

 legs, black ; the wings fusco-hyaline, a dark cloud occupying the 

 upper portion of the marginal cell, the nervures black. Abdomen 

 shining, subglobose ; the first and second segments with reddish 

 brown pubescence, on the following segments it is black ; beneath, 

 densely clothed with black pubescence. B.M. 



Var. jj. The sixth segment of the abdomen with a little fulvous 

 pubescence. 



Male. Length 4-5 lines. — The head as wide as the thorax, the face 

 clothed with white pubescence intermixed with ochraceous at the 

 insertion of the antennas, which are shorter than the thorax ; the 

 thorax has a fulvous pubescence above, beneath it is griseous ; the 

 wings rather clearer than in the other sex. Abdomen shining, its 

 pubescence fulvous ; the sixth segment slightly notched in the 

 middle, the seventh bidentate ; beneath, the second ventral plate 

 is pointed in the middle, and the third deeply notched, the notch 

 ciliated with bright yellow hairs. m B.M. 



This is a very local species. It appears about the end of April 

 or the beginning of May. Mr. Kirby discovered it at Somersham, 

 near Ipswich. It has been found subsequently at Darenth Wood ; 

 and near Liverpool Mr. George Waterhouse took it in abundance, 

 finding its nests and breeding the sexes. He has published an in- 

 teresting account of its economy in the second volume of the ' Zoolo- 

 gist.' Near Bristol it has been observed frequenting the ground-ivy 

 (Glechoma hederacea) ; other localities known are Eastbourne and the 

 neighbourhood of Exeter. The male placed by Mr. Kirby in his col- 

 lection as belonging to this species is that of Osmia fulviventris. 



5. Osmia fuciformis. 



0. aterrima, villosa, thorace abdominisque segmentis duobus basa- 

 libus rufo pilosis, metathorace area media nitida. 



Osmia fuciformis, Latr. Encycl. Meth. viii. 579 tf 2 • 



Nyland. JYotis. ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 270. 

 Gerst. Stett. ent. Zeit. (1869) 333. 



Osmia chrysomelina, Panz. Faun. Germ. 110. 16 <5 2 • 



Female. Length 4|-5 lines.— Black ; the head as wide as the thorax^ 

 very closely punctured ; the face sparingly clothed with black pubes- 

 cence, on the margin of the vertex it is rufous. Thorax clothed abov e 

 with rufo-fulvous pubescence, that beneath and on the legs is black . 



