742 Insects, 



punctured. Head ; a few pale hairs on the face, below the antenna?, 

 and a few scattered reddish yellow ones on the vertex ; the mandibles 

 with three acute teeth. The antennae short and black. The thorax 

 thinly clothed above with reddish yellow hair, inclining to hoary be- 

 neath. The scutellum armed laterally with an acute tooth. Wings 

 fuscous. All the legs have a thin, scattered, griseous pubescence, all 

 the calcaria testaceous : the tarsi beneath clothed with fulvous hair. 

 The abdomen is subglobose ; the first, second and third segments 

 have at their extreme lateral, and the fourth, fifth and sixth have, on 

 their entire margin, a fascia of white hairs. The abdomen beneath is 

 densely clothed with fulvous hair. 



Male. — Length 3 lines. Black, deeply punctured ; the face clothed 

 with longish yellow hair ; the vertex thinly so with reddish brown hair: 

 mandibles bidentate. The thorax above thinly clothed with reddish 

 brown hair. Apical margins of the wings fuscous. The legs have 

 a scattered griseous pubescence ; the claws rufous. The abdomen is 

 incurved, and the margin of the sixth segment is armed with minute 

 spines ; beneath there is a stout acute spine at the base, and a smaller 

 one on the apical segment. 



This bee I have met with in Kent, also in Hampshire. It appears 

 to be found generally in chalky districts. It is a local, but in some 

 places an abundant species. 



Sp. 3. Osmia HIRTA. 

 Apis hirta, Fourcroy. Osmia fulviventris, Lat. ? Apis Leaiana, Kirby. 



Female. — Length 4 — 5 J lines. Black, closely and deeply punc- 

 tured. Head large, as wide as the thorax : the mandibles large and 

 stout, with two acute teeth at their apex : the face thinly clothed with 

 pale fulvous hairs : the antennae short. The thorax also thinly clo- 

 thed with pale fulvous hair. The anterior trochanters and femora 

 have a fringe of hairs of the same colour, and all the legs have a thin 

 short pubescence, also of the same colour ; all the tarsi are clothed 

 beneath with fulvous hair. The abdomen is nigro-aeneous, shining, 

 oblong and incurved, and the margins of the segments have laterally 

 a few bright fulvous hairs, very frequently obliterated ; it is densely 

 clothed beneath with bright fulvous hair. 



Male. — Length 4j — 5 lines. Nigro-aeneous, closely and deeply 

 punctured. Head as wide as the thorax : the face clothed with ful- 

 vous hair becoming paler towards the mandibles. The thorax is also 

 clothed with rather long fulvous hair, paler beneath. The anterior fe- 

 mora have a fringe of longish pale fulvous hairs : all the legs have a 



