10. ANTHIDIUM. 169 



Antliidium manicatum, Fdbr. Syst. Piez. 364 c? $ . 



Latr. Ann. Mm. Hist. Nat. xiii. 212. 



Curtis, Brit. Fnt. iv. tab. 21. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 355. 



Smith, Zool. iv. 1452 ; Bees Great Brit. 185. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sdllsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 265. 



Schench, Nass. Bien. 344, 345. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 218. 

 Apis manicata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 958 <$ . 



Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 330. 



Schdff. Icon. Ins. tab. 32. figs. 11, 12. 



Christ. Hym. 133 ; tab. 9. fig. 5. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 11 S . 



Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 248, tab. 16. fig. 12 $, 13 tf . 



Donov. Brit. Ins. xiv. 57, tab. 489. 

 Trachusa rnanicata, Jurine, Hym. 253. 



Female. Length 4-5| lines. — Black ; the face on each side below 

 the antennae and the clypeus yellow, the latter black at the base, 

 from which a central black stripe runs to the anterior margin of 

 the clypeus, which is minutely denticulate ; the mandibles and a 

 minute spot on the vertex above the eyes yellow ; the face and cheeks 

 with a thin griseous pubescence ; that on the vertex is rufo-fuscous. 

 Thorax — the tubercles and a spot on the front of the tegulse yellow ; 

 the femora usually more or less rufo-piceous beneath ; the tibiae 

 with a yellow line above, frequently interrupted in the middle ; 

 the tarsi yellow, and densely covered above with short yellowish 

 white pubescence, beneath with golden pubescence ; the apical 

 joint of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the mesothorax thinly clothed 

 with rufo-fuscous pubescence ; on the sides beneath and on the legs 

 the pubescence is cinereous. Abdomen, each segment with a 

 lateral yellow macula, which are ovate on all the segments except 

 those on the fifth, which are oblong ; the fourth segment has 

 usually two additional minute yellow spots ; beneath, clothed with 

 dense pale yellowish shining pubescence. 

 Yar. (5. The abdominal segments with transverse yellow fasciae, 

 which are widely interrupted at the base, and more narrowly so 

 towards the apex of the abdomen. B.M. 



Male. Length 5-7 lines. — Black ; the clypeus, the face on each 

 side, the mandibles, and a spot on the vertex above the eyes yellow ; 

 the clypeus has a trident-shaped black macula at its base ; and the 

 mandibles have their tips black ; the face and cheeks have a cine- 

 reous pubescence, that on the vertex and on the disk of the thorax 

 fulvo-ochraceous ; the tegulae in front and behind and the tubercles 

 behind yellow ; the wings as in the other sex ; the anterior and 

 intermediate tibiae yellow at their apex ; the thorax at the sides 

 and beneath and the femora have a cinereous pubescence ; the 

 tarsi densely covered and fringed behind with silvery white pubes- 

 cence ; the basal joint of the two anterior pairs yellow ; sometimes 

 the posterior tibiae have a yellow spot at their base, and occasionally 

 at their apex also ; their pubescence silvery, having a golden tinge 

 above. Abdomen variable in its markings, having a lateral ovate 



