186 apid^;. 



metropolis. It formerly occurred at Coombe Wood, and is not un- 

 common at Weybridge and at Blackwater, Hants. 



1. Saropoda bimaculata. 



S. nigra, pallide villosa, facie antice oreque flavescentibus, ano 

 tomentoso-incano. Mas thoraee fulvo-villosa, facie immaculata. 



Saropoda bimaculata, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 177. 



Curtis, Brit Ent. viii. 361. fig. <$ . 



Smith, Zool. iii. 891 ; Bees Great Brit. 199 tf $ . 



Dours, Mon. Icon. Anthoph. 169. 

 Apis bimaculata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 17 $ . 



Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 286 2 • 

 Anthophora bimaculata, Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 127. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 36. 

 Heliophila bimaculata, King, Illig. Mag. vi. 227. 

 Apis rotundata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 56. 9 c? . 



Kirby, lib. cit. ii. 291 <$ £ • 

 Anthophora rotuudata, Schenck, Nass. Bien. 169. 



Female. Length 4|-5 lines. Black ; the clypeus, labrum, and 

 mandibles at their base yellow ; the clypeus black at its base, 

 divided by a narrow central yellow line ; the apical half of the 

 mandibles rufo-piceous ; the face has a short thin pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; on the vertex it is more or less fuscous. Tborax — the 

 disk with short fuscous pubescence, that on the sides, beneath, and 

 on the legs pale fulvous ; on the basal joint of the posterior tarsus 

 within is a dense dark fusco-ferruginous pubescence; the apical 

 joints of the tarsi rufo-piceous ; the legs frequently entirely rufo- 

 piceous, sometimes obscurely so ; wings hyaline at their base, more 

 or less clouded at their apical margins, the tegulae testaceous. 

 Abdomen subglobose, with a little long pale fulvous pubescence at 

 the base ; on the following segments a short thin fuscous pubescence; 

 the base of the third, and the fourth and fifth entirely, covered with 

 a pale cinereous pilosity ; at the extreme apex the pubescence is 

 black ; all the segments with narrow pale pubescent fasciae on their 

 apical margins. B.M. 



Male. Length 4| lines. — Black ; the face below the antennae, the 

 labrum, mandibles, and scape in front yellowish white ; the face 

 has a thin pale fulvous pubescence ; on the vertex and disk of the 

 thorax a rich fulvous pubescence, but much paler on the sides 

 and beneath ; legs dark rufo-piceous, sometimes black ; the poste- 

 rior tibiae subincrassate ; the claw-joint of the tarsi enlarged, 

 larger than in the other sex ; wings as in the female. Abdomen 

 subovate ; the apical margins of the segments with narrow pale 

 fulvous pubescent fasciae. B.M. 



This bee, usually appearing in July, is frequently found on the 

 purple heath, and no doubt frequents other flowers ; but I have not 

 frequently observed it doing so. Kirby's A. rotundata is this species 

 in finer condition than his A. bimaculata. The descriptions of the 



