894 Insects. 



legs ; the tarsi, posterior plantae, and calcaria are ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men, thinly clothed with ferruginous hair, the apical segment with 

 black, the seventh segment is obtusely bidentate ; the apical seg- 

 ments beneath are clothed with very short ferruginous hair. 



I think there is no doubt that this is Panzer's A. furcata ; his de- 

 scription is that of a long disclosed specimen. This species is by 

 no means abundant ; it is one of those local insects which are some- 

 times taken in some numbers, and then lost sight of, perhaps, for 

 years. I have captured it in Hampshire and Kent : in the Battersea 

 fields some years ago I found it pretty numerous, but the old wooden 

 outhouses and palings are since destroyed, and I cannot now meet 

 with the bee, so that I conclude it is a wood burrower, as Mr. Kirby 

 has recorded on the authority of Mr. Trimmer. I never observed it 

 frequent any flower but the dead nettle. 



Genus. — Anthophora, Lat., St. Fargeau. 



Lasius, Jurine. Apis, Linn. Kirby. 



Sp. 1. Anthophora retusa. 



Female. — Apis retusa, Linn. Apis acervorum, Fab., Panzer. 



Female, (length 7 to 8 lines). Black, the labrum clothed with 

 rufous hair. Thorax, the posterior tibiae and plantae at their base 

 clothed with ferruginous hair. The calcaria black. 



Male. — Apis pennipes, Linn. A. pilipes, Fab., Panzer. 



Male, (length 6 to 7 lines). Black; head, the clypeus yellow; the 

 lateral margins and a minute spot or streak on each side towards the 

 base black ; between the clypeus and the orbits of the eyes yellow ; 

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

 labrum yellow, the latter has two dark brown spots at the base ; the 

 cheeks clothed w T ith longish cinereous hair; the pubescence of the 

 thorax above is fulvous ; all the coxae and the anterior femora at the 

 base fringed with cinereous hair, becoming fulvous towards the apex ; 

 the intermediate legs have the femora and tibiae thinly fringed behind 

 with long black hair; at the extreme apex in front is a patch of 

 short ferruginous hair, and behind, the fringe towards the apex is 

 cinereous ; the plantae are elongate, and have a fringe of short stiff 

 black hair at the apex in front; this and the three following joints 

 are thinly fringed behind with long black hairs ; the terminal joint is 

 fringed on both sides ; the posterior legs are clothed with black hair, 

 and have on the hinder margin a narrow fringe, and at the extreme 

 apex of the tibiae a patch of cinereous hair, which also clothes the 

 tarsi above ; the plantae are ferruginous within ; the abdomen is 



