Insects. 2213 



Osmia cornuta, Latreille. 

 Megilla cornuta, Spinola. Apis cornuta, Oliv. 



Female. — (Length 5 lines). Nigro-aeneous ; the clypeus armed on 

 each side with an incurved horn, obtuse at the apex ; the mandibles 

 very stout, and having an acute tooth at the apex ; the face clothed 

 with long black hair, as well as the thorax ; the wings slightly fus- 

 cous. Abdomen entirely fuscous ; all the tarsi beneath and the pos- 

 terior tibiae clothed with ferruginous pubescence ; the claws ferru- 

 ginous. 



Male. — (Length 4 — 5 lines). Nigro-aeneous; the face and head 

 beneath clothed with long white hair, the sides with black ; the an- 

 tennae as long as the head and thorax. Thorax clothed above with 

 brownish black pubescence, beneath intermixed with pale ferruginous ; 

 all the tarsi beneath and the abdomen clothed with ferruginous pu- 

 bescence. 



There are both sexes of this species in the national collection at the 

 British Museum, but no locality can be discovered. I must confess 

 my doubts of the species being indigenous ; so fine and conspicuous 

 an insect would I think have been observed by entomologists, since 

 it belongs to a section of bees usually abundant, although some 

 are local. There are also specimens in the collection of Mr. J. F. 

 Stephens, said to have been captured, I think, at Bristol. 



Systropha spiralis. There is a specimen of this insect in the 

 national collection at the British Museum, but its locality is not 

 known : it therefore is doubtful as a British species. The same will 

 apply to a specimen of Melliturga clavicornis. 



Anthocopa papaveris, St. Fargeau. 

 Osmia papaveris, Latr. 



Female. — (Length 4 — 4j lines). Black, punctured ; the face thinly 

 clothed with white pubescence, thickest along the inner orbits of the 

 eyes and on the cheeks ; the antennae a little longer than the head ; 

 the pubescence on the disk of the thorax is of a dirty white ; on the 

 sides, metathorax and beneath it is white ; that on the tarsi beneath 

 is fulvous ; the claws ferruginous. Abdomen, the basal segment is 

 clothed at the sides with long white pubescence ; all the segments 

 have a narrow white marginal fascia, the two first frequently inter- 

 rupted ; beneath, the pollen-brush is pale fulvous. 



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