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and by the fasciae being quite white. This bee is plentiful at Wey- 

 bridge, where it frequents the purple heath ; I have also found it in 

 similar situations in Hampshire, and have received it from the Isle 

 of Wight, and from Sussex. I have not met with it in the immediate 

 vicinity of London. 



Sp. 2. Colletes fodiens, Latreille. 



Female. — (Length 4 to 4 J lines). Black, the face clothed with pale 

 hair ; the antennas nigro-piceous beneath ; the cheeks have a pale pu- 

 bescence, that on the thorax above is fulvous, and on the sides and 

 beneath, it is nearly white ; as is also the fringe on the femora. 

 The abdomen is not shining, the first segment is deeply, and the rest 

 more finely punctate, the puncturing being so close as to give the ab- 

 domen an opaque appearance ; all the segments have an entire fascia 

 of pale fulvous hair. 



Male. — (Length 3 J to 4 lines). Black, the face clothed with pale 

 fulvous hair. The thorax above clothed with a somewhat fulvous pu- 

 bescence, that beneath and also the fringe on the femora nearly white. 

 Abdomen rather coarsely punctured, with a thin pale pubescence, all 

 the segments have a pale marginal fascia. 



The sculpture of this species will serve at once to distinguish it ; 

 the exceedingly close punctation on the abdomen has a brown- 

 ish hue, and is not black and shining as in succincta. This bee 

 appears to be very generally distributed ; and although I have found 

 its nests, I never observed it to form large colonies. 



Sp. 3. Colletes marginata. 

 Apis marginata, Linnean Cabinet. 



Female. — (Length 4 lines). Black, the clypeus deeply pnnctured, 

 with a thin fulvous pubescence, more dense along the margins of the 

 eyes. The thorax above, clothed with a thin fulvous pubescence, that 

 on the sides and beneath being paler ; all the legs are thinly clothed 

 with a similar pubescence. The abdomen shining, the basal segment 

 rather deeply, the rest more finely punctate ; the base of the first seg- 

 ment has a pale fulvous pubescence, which is also the colour of the 

 fascia on the margins of all the segments. 



Male. — (Length 3 lines). Black, the face densely clothed with 

 pale yellow hair : that on the thorax is thin, and of the same colour, as 

 it is also on the legs ; the claws rufous. The abdomen rather deeply, 



