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BRITISH BEES. 
I happened to he collecting near the spot on the day of 
our gracious Queen’s coronation, when I captured mul¬ 
titudes of a splendid large Allantus, entirely new to the 
British fauna, and a choice addition to collections. This 
ground had been hunted at all seasons through all bo¬ 
tanical and entomological time, and neither had the 
mustard plant been found there before nor had the in¬ 
sect. Whence did they both come? These observations 
have certainly nothing to do with the subject in hand, 
beyond suggesting that with untiring energy in the 
vicinities indicated where Macropis has been already 
found it may possibly turn up in abundance. 
Genus 8. DASYPODA, latreille . 
Melitta ## c, partly, Kirby. 
(Plate V. fig. 3 c? ? .) 
Gen. Char.: Head transverse; vertex glabrous; ocelli 
placed in a curved line; antennae short, filiform, genicu- 
lated, the scape thickly bearded with long hair and 
scarcely half the length of the flagellum ; face and cly- 
peus densely pubescent, the latter slightly convex; labrurn 
transverse, linear, slightly rounded in front; mandibles 
arcuate, bidentate, the teeth acute and robust; cibarial 
apparatus moderately long; tongue long, very acute, and 
fringed with delicate hair; paraglossae about one-third 
the length of the tongue, very slender, and acute; the 
labial palpi inserted upon the junction of the labium, 
very slender, filiform, of uniform thickness, the joints 
subclavate, the basal joint considerably the longest, the 
second joint also long, the two terminal joints much 
shorter and decreasing in length; labium about the 
