11. MEGACHILE. 179 



does not include it in his Hymenoptera of Trance ; but it has been 

 received from Paris, taken by Dr. Sichel, 



9. Megaehile maritima. 



M. pallide pubescens, thoracis disco fusco-ferrugineo ; mandibulis 

 magnis, prominentibus ; abdomine oblongo-cordato, segmentorum 

 marginibus albicantibus. Mas pedibus anticis dilatato-ciliatis, 

 tibiis posticis clavatis, ano emarginato. 



Megachile maritima, Smith, Zool. ii. 692 <$ £ ; Bee's Great Brit. 182. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 329. 

 Apis maritima, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 242 $ . 

 Apis lagopoda, Fabr. Fnt. Syst. ii. 325 rf . 

 Anthophora lagopoda, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 374 J . 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 7. 



Female. Length 6-7 lines. — Black; the face before the antennae 

 densely clothed with fulvous pubescence, above the antennae and 

 on the vertex it is dark fuscous or black ; the mandibles stout, and 

 with four blunt teeth, fringed with fulvous hairs beneath. Thorax, 

 the pubescence on the disk dark fuscous, on the sides and beneath 

 pale fulvous, more or less so according to age ; the legs with a pale 

 bright pubescence ; on the anterior tibiae above it is fuscous ; they 

 are fringed behind, as well as the tarsi, with long pale fulvous 

 hairs ; the posterior tibiae with short cinereous pubescence outside ; 

 all the tarsi clothed beneath with rufo-fulvous pubescence ; wings 

 subhyaline, slightly clouded at their apical margins. Abdomen, 

 the two basal segments with thin loose fulvous pubescence ; on the 

 other segments it is short and black, and their apical margins have 

 a narrow pale fringe; beneath, densely clothed with very pale 

 pubescence, whitish at the base ; at the apex is a little black pu- 

 bescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 6-7 lines. — The general pubescence fulvous, palest 

 at the sides of the thorax, beneath, and on the legs. The antennae 

 filiform, with the apical joint compressed and dilated ; the mandi- 

 bles with their inferior margins towards their apex rufo-piceous ; 

 the anterior coxae armed with a blunt spine ; the anterior legs have 

 the femora and tibiae pale testaceous beneath, the former having a 

 dark longitudinal stripe in the middle ; the tarsi pale testaceous 

 and broadly dilated, the apex of the tibiae also pale ; the basal joint 

 of the tarsi as broad as the tibiae at the base, and widened slightly 

 towards the apex, which is much produced above and rounded at 

 the point; the following three joints very short, each in succession 

 much reduced in width ; the tarsi with a dense curled fringe be- 

 hind of pale pubescence, which is slightly ferruginous at its margin ; 

 the posterior tibiae incrassate, and, as well as the tarsi, curved in- 

 wardly ; the basal joint of the tarsi broadly dilated. Abdomen ob- 

 long, the apex obtuse ; the sixth segment with a deep central de- 

 pression, its apical margin deeply emarginate in the middle, with 

 the sides crenulated ; the seventh segment has on its margin a 

 minute lateral tooth. B.M. 



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