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BRITISH BEES. 
NATIVE SPECIES. 
§ Males with elongate tufted intermediate tarsi, and differing from 
female in colour. 
1. retusa, Linnseus, f ?. 6 lines. (Plate YI. fig. 3 
c? ?.) 
Haworthana, Kirby. 
Haworthana , Curtis, viii. 357. 
2. acervorum, Fabricius, ? . 6-8 lines. 
reiusa, Kirby. 
§§ Males without elongate tufted intermediate tarsi, concolorous with 
their females. 
3. furcata, Panzer, £ ? . 5-6 lines. (Plate VII. 
fig- 1 c? ? •) 
furcata, Kirby. 
4. quadrimaculata , Panzer, $ $ . 4-5 lines. 
vulpina, Kirby. 
subglobosa, Kirby. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
The name av0o$, fwp < pa>pbs, flower-rifler, would 
be as suitable for any other genus of bees, and therefore 
may be classed with those names which have no explicit 
signification. 
The two divisions which our native species of this 
genus form, might very consistently constitute two ge¬ 
nera, differing so much as they do both in habit and 
habits. In the first section the males totally differ from 
their females, the latter being black and the pubescence 
of their partners fulvous, and whose intermediate legs 
are so much longer, and are decorated besides with tufts 
of hair upon their plantse, neither peculiarity being 
found in those of the second section, which conform 
