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BRITISH BEES. 
basal joint very robust, and its terminal joint twice as 
long and linear. Thorax globose, very hirsute, whence 
its divisions are inconspicuous; scutellum lunate; meta- 
thorax truncated; icings w ith three submarginal cells sub¬ 
equal, or the third the longest, and a fourth slightly com¬ 
menced, the second receiving the first recurrent nervure 
near its centre, and the third receiving the second re¬ 
current nervure close to its extremity; legs robust, 
pilose, the four anterior plants with a dense, short, se¬ 
tose brush beneath; the posterior tihice triangular, very 
smooth, and irregularly concave on their external sur¬ 
face, fringed with long pile along its two external edges, 
and its extremity tipped with a short peeten of stiff setse; 
the plantce elongate and broad, nearly equal, externally 
shagreened and spinulose, with a longish auriculated 
process at the external angle of the superior edge, a 
dense brush of short, stiff hair beneath, and a short 
peeten of stiff setm edging its subemarginate extremity; 
the claw-joint the longest of the four short subsequent 
joints, and the claws bifid. Abdomen ovate or globose, 
deflected towards its extremity, its base retuse, the last 
segment triangular, and terminating obtusely. 
The male differs in always being more intensely co¬ 
loured ; in having the antenme distinctly longer, less dis¬ 
tinctly geniculated, the scape shorter, the third joint of 
the flagellum almost as short as its basal joint, and the 
fourth as long as the terminal one, which latter tw T o 
are the longest of all, and the joints from the fourth to 
the eleventh severally more or less slightly curved. 
NATIVE SPECIES. 
1. lapidarius , Linnseus, $ $ ° . 6-10 lines. 
lapidarius , Kirby. 
