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Section II. Males with the intermediate tarsi not elongated. 



3. Anthophora quadrimaculata. 



A. atra, pallido villosa, thorace flavescente, abdominis segmentis 

 pallido marginatis. Mas femoribus intermediis magnis, clavatis. 



Anthophora quadrimaculata, St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 84 J • 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. 205 tf $ . 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 169. 



Dours, Mon. Anthoph. 145. 

 Apis quadrimaculata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 7 <5 . 

 Megilla quadrimaculata, Fabr. Syst. Piez, 331. 



Panz. Krit. Revis. 226. 



Nyland. Notts, ur Stilish, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 244. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 55. 

 Apis vulpina, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 290 tf . 

 Saropoda vulpina, Curtis, Brit. Fnt. viii. 361. 



Smith, Zool. iii. 892. 

 Apis subglobosa, Kirby, lib. cit. ii. 295 $ . 

 Anthophora borealis, Mor. Bull. Moscou (1864) 446. 



Female. Length 4J lines. — Black ; the pubescence on the face fus- 

 cous ; on each side anteriorly is a little short cinereous pubescence ; 

 that on the vertex is black ; on the disk of the thorax it is fulvo- 

 ochraceous, the tips of the hairs black ; on the metathorax the 

 pubescence is pale fulvo-ochraceous, that on the thorax beneath is 

 cinereous ; the legs have a short cinereous pubescence, that on the 

 posterior tibiae and intermediate and posterior tarsi above is white ; 

 the tarsi fulvous beneath, the calcaria testaceous, the claws ferru- 

 ginous; the wings rryaline, very faintly clouded at their apical 

 margins. Abdomen subglobose, the margins of the segments fringed 

 with fulvo-ochraceous pubescence ; between the fasciae the pubes- 

 cence is fuscous, that at the apex black. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black; the scape in front, the clypeus, a 

 transverse line above, the face on each side, the labrum, and a spot 

 at the base of the mandibles yellow ; the clypeus has on each side 

 at its base an angular black spot, and the labrum a minute round 

 dot ; in other respects it closely resembles the female ; the femora 

 clavate, the intermediate pair most thickly so. B.M. 



This species appears about the end of June, and constructs its nest 

 in banks, sandy cliffs, &c. ; it frequents the deadnettle {Lamium 

 purpureum), and is not uncommon in the vicinity of London. It in 

 some respects resembles Saropoda bimaculata ; its flight is rapid, and 

 it makes a shrill piping sound similar to that of the latter insect. 

 Dr. Nylander has examined the type of the Megilla quadrimaculata 

 of Fabricius in the museum at Kiel, and has confirmed the suspicion 

 of Kirby, expressed in his own interleaved copy of the ' Mongraphia,' 

 viz. that his Apis vulpina was synonymous with that insect. 



