Insects. 893 



taceous. Abdomen subglobose, all the segments have a marginal 

 fascia of pale fulvous hair. 



Male, (length 4 lines). Black; the face below the base of the 

 antennae yellow ; two quadrate black maculae at the base of the 

 clypeus ; the labrum yellow, with two minute black spots at the base ; 

 a spot on the mandibles, and the scape of the antennae in front yel- 

 low; the pubescence on the thorax above is pale fulvous, beneath 

 and on the legs it is cinereous ; all the femora clavate, the interme- 

 diate pair much dilated, the calcaria testaceous, and the tarsi ferru- 

 ginous. The abdomen subglobose, the basal segment thinly clothed 

 with a pale fulvous pubescence ; all the margins have a fascia of pale 

 fulvous hair, inclining to cinereous, towards the apical margin. 



The subglobosa of Kirby's Monograph is the female of this spe- 

 cies ; Panzer's vulpina is, I think, the male : if such be the case, the 

 figure is not good, the spots on the clypeus are much smaller than in 

 any specimen I ever saw ; the antennae are also represented as being 

 incrassated ; in our male they are filiform : the description, however, 

 is good, and suits our species. This is rather a scarce bee ; it bur- 

 rows in banks, and frequents the flowers of the dead nettle ; the 

 sexes are frequently found in company ; its flight is very rapid, and 

 its hum particularly shrill and cheerful ; by its particular tone I could 

 detect the presence of this species, as well as Anthidium, Antho- 

 phora and some species of Bombi. 



Sp. 3. Saropoda furcata. 

 Apis furcata, Panz., Kirby. 



Female, (length 5^ to 6 lines). Black ; head, the face below the 

 base of the antennae thinly clothed with ferruginous hair, the labrum 

 more thickly with hair of the same colour ; the vertex thinly clothed 

 with black hair. The disk of the thorax clothed with reddish-brown, 

 and the sides with fulvous hair ; at the extreme apex of the posterior 

 plantae is a fasciculus of bright ferruginous hair, the scopulae fulvous. 

 The abdomen very thinly clothed with pale fulvous hair, the apex of 

 the fifth and sixth apical segment bright ferruginous. 



Male, (length 4j to 5 lines). Head, clypeus, and labrum yellow, 

 the latter with two minute black spots at the base, placed at the 

 extreme lateral margins, the scape of the antennae has a thin yellow 

 streak in front, but sometimes it is totally black ; the pubescence on 

 the clypeus is bright yellow, between which and the base of the 

 antennae it is brown, and black on the vertex ; the thorax is clothed 

 with ferruginous hair above, on the sides it is pale, as well as on the 



