Insects. 895 



oblong, subglobose ; the first, second, and (base of the) third segment, 

 are clothed with fulvous hair ; the remainder with black ; beneath, the 

 margins of the segments are laterally fringed with cinereous hair. 



This an abundant species, and appears very early in the spring ; 

 the colour of the male soon fades from exposure, and at length it 

 becomes entirely grey ; this has, in some degree, contributed to the 

 confusion arising from its having been described under several differ- 

 ent names. Large colonies of this bee I have frequently met with ; 

 I have observed one for the last ten years in a bank, the face of which 

 is completely drilled with their burrows. In Yorkshire I once ob- 

 served immense numbers of this bee flying about the south side of a 

 large barn constructed of stone ; the mortar was perforated in all 

 directions, and I was informed that it has more than once been re- 

 painted : wherever a colony of this bee is found, its parasite Melecta 

 may be observed entering the same burrows. 



Sp. 2. Anthophora Haworthana. 

 Apis Haworthana, Kirby's Mon. 



Female, (length 7 lines). Black ; head nearly as wide as the tho- 

 rax ; the labrum clothed with pale brown hair ; the pubescence on 

 the metathorax laterally is brown : the posterior tibiae and plantae are 

 clothed outside with fulvous, and the latter within with ferruginous 

 hair; the calcaria testaceous, the tarsi beneath ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men, the first segment laterally, and the rest entirely, have a marginal 

 fringe of sooty-black hair. 



Male, (length 6 to 7 lines). Head, face below the base of the an- 

 tennae yellow, with two square black maculae at the base of the cly- 

 peus, sometimes united ; the scape of the antennae in front, and the 

 labrum, yellow, the latter with two small lateral black maculae at the 

 base, the mandibles black. The pubescence on the thorax above is 

 fulvous, with a few black hairs on the disk ; the anterior femora, and 

 intermediate coxae, fringed behind with cinereous hair ; the hinder 

 margins of the intermediate and posterior tibiae fringed with fulvous 

 hair, their extreme apex also ferruginous ; the intermediate and pos- 

 terior plantae black ; the former has a fringe of short black hair at the 

 apex in front, and a few rather longer on the hinder margin ; the 

 apical joint has a very short fringe of black hairs on both sides ; all 

 the tarsi otherwise ferruginous ; the calcaria testaceous. The abdo- 

 men has the first, and sometimes the second segment clothed with 

 ferruginous hair, and the rest sparingly with short black hair ; the 



