1452 Insects. 



Sp. 2. Panurgus calcaeatus. 

 Apis calcaratus, Scopoli. Andrena lobata, Panzer. 

 Apis ursina, var. /3. Kirby, female. Apis Linneella, Kirby, male. 



Female. — Length 3 — 4 lines. Black, shining, thinly clothed with 

 black pubescence; the antennae beneath, and the apical joints entirely 

 rufo-piceous, tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; thorax, wings hyaline ; 

 the anterior and intermediate tibia and tarsi thinly, and the posterior 

 densely clothed with fulvous hair, the calcaria and apical joint of the 

 tarsi ferruginous ; the margins of the abdominal segments depressed, 

 the apex tufted with brown hair. 



Male. — Length 3 — 3 \ lines. Black, shining, w r ith a thin black pu- 

 bescence ; head large, wider than the thorax, sometimes half as wide 

 again ; antennae rufous, with the base black, tips of the mandibles fer- 

 ruginous; thorax, tegulae piceous, wings hyaline, nervures rufo-piceous; 

 the legs nigro-piceous, the posterior femora clavate, with a stout ob- 

 tuse tooth beneath ; the margins of the abdominal segments depressed, 

 the apical segments are tufted laterally with brown hair, the apex bi- 

 lobed. 



Panurgus calcaratus I have met with at Charlton, also at Darent 

 in Kent, plentiful at Weybridge, and on several heaths in Hamp- 

 shire ; they frequent different species of dandelion [Leontodon). 

 Their burrows are from six to eight inches deep, generally con- 

 structed in a firm sandy soil: it is very partial to a hard trodden 

 pathway. They store up a mass of pollen and honey similar to the 

 Andrenidae. 



Genus. — Anthidium, Fabricius, St. Fargeau. 

 Apis, Linnaeus, Kirby. Trachusa, Jurine. 



Antennae filiform: mandibles with four or five teeth : maxillary palpi 

 1 -jointed, labial palpi 4-jointed, the two apical joints minute: fore- 

 wings with two complete sub-marginal cells. There is but one 

 British species known. 



Sp. 1. Anthidium manicatum. 



Female. — Length 4 — 5j lines. Black, punctate ; mandibles yel- 

 low, black at their tips ; the face below the antennae yellow, with the 

 base and centre of the clypeus black ; the labium denticulate, a yel- 

 low spot on the vertex above the eye ; the thorax has a pale yellow 

 pubescence at the sides, becoming nearly white on the nietathorax 

 and beneath, a yellow spot on the tubercles and tegulae ; the legs have 



