892 Insects. 



abdomen is subglobose, thinly clothed at the base with pale fulvous 

 hair ; the four segments are margined with hair of the same colour, 

 the first very narrowly so ; the fifth segment is entirely clothed with 

 very short pale yellow hair, intermixed with some long reddish- 

 brown hairs, which densely clothe the apical margin ; the sixth seg- 

 ment has on each side a tuft of dark brown hairs projecting beyond 

 the apex, giving it the appearance of being bidentate. 



Male, (length 4 lines). Black, minutely punctured ; head, the 

 face below the antenna? yellow, their scape and the labrum yellow ; 

 the mandibles yellow at their base, piceous at their apex ; the centre 

 of the vertex, and thence to the base of the antennae, clothed with 

 fulvous hair, the legs above clothed with short, pale, fulvous hair, the 

 tarsi ferruginous, the apical joint dark piceous, and somewhat dilated. 

 The basal segment of the abdomen thinly covered with short, pale, 

 fulvous hair ; all the segments have a marginal fascia of short hair 

 of the same colour, the seventh is covered with the same, and has a 

 smooth central carina, and two tufts of hair projecting beyond the 

 apex, giving it the appearance of being bidentate. 



The collecting of a series of specimens in different states, and a 

 comparison of them with Kirby's originals in the cabinet of the 

 Entomological Society, prove that S. rotundata and S. bimaculata of 

 Kirby constitute but one species ; S. rotundata being the more re- 

 cently disclosed insect : the bright fulvous colour of this bee becomes 

 almost white in old worn specimens. I believe the Apis rotundata of 

 Panzer to be the male of this species. The eyes of this bee, when 

 first disclosed, are of a beautiful light green ; after some days ex- 

 posure they turn to a blue grey. I have found this species abundant 

 in two or three localities in Hampshire : I have also taken it at Wey- 

 bridge ; perpendicular sand-banks, on or in the neighbourhood of 

 heaths, appear to be its favourite localities. 



Sp. 2. Saropoda vulpina. 



Apis vulpina, Panz., Kirby. 



Female, (length 4j lines). Black ; head, the labrum thinly clothed 

 with reddish-brown hair, the face with dark brown, and the vertex 

 with black, a cinereous pubescence on the cheeks, that on the thorax 

 above is brown, beneath and on the legs it is cinereous; at the ex- 

 treme apex of the anterior and intermediate tibia? above, is a small 

 patch of short, bright, fulvous hair, and at the apex of the posterior 

 plantnc is a tuft of brown hair ; the tarsi ferruginous, and calcaria tes- 



