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Show INSECTA. 150 In some this ligula is folded against the superior side of its sheath, as in ANn RENA( 1 )~ and DASYPODA, Lat.(2) The first joint of the posterior tarsi of the females of the latter subgenus is very long, and covered with long hairs in the manner of a little feather. The superior wings in these h:o subgenera have but t\<0 cubital cells. .11. jlessm, Panz.; Faun. Insect. Germ. LXXXV, 15; .!lndrtn. des murs, Reaum., Insect., VI, vi, viii, 2. Six lines in length, and with white hairs on the head, thorax., lateral margins of the . last abdominal annuli, an-d legs; abdomen bluish-black; wings black, with a tinge of violet. The female excavates holes in tenacious sand, at the bottom of which she deposits a portion of honey, of the colout and consistence of a black and oily grease; it has a narcotic odour. Common in the environs of Paris. In the others the ligula is straight , or slightly bent under at its extremity. Such are SPHEoonEs(3), HALIOTUS( 4), and NoMIA, Lat.(s) Here also the max.illre are more strongly geniculate than in the Andrenre. There are always three closed cubital cells. The male Sphecodes have knotted antennre; their ligula, as well as that of the females, is almost straight, and its divisions are nearly equal in length; that in the middle is much longer in Halictus and Nomia. The female Halicti have a longitudinal cleft at the poste- (1) Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., IV, 150. The species which in my Gener. crust. et Insect., P· 151, I have called lagopus, and three others from the Cape of Good Hope, being removed from the ordinary Andrence by the number of their complete cubital cells, which is but two instead of three, as well as by some other cl1aracters, have been erected by Messrs Lepeletier and Serville-Encyc. M6thod. -into a new genus to which they have given the name of ScnuT>:lt· ((32}) LLaatt..,, IIbbiidd.. , Messrs Lepeletier and Serville have formed a. new genus-En· eye. M~thod.-allied to. Sphecodes, under the denomination of RHATHt]l[ll&formerly Colax-but differing from it in the projection. of the scutellum, and in the third cubital cell, which receives the two recurrent nervures. Besides this, the hooks of the tarsi are entire. They quote but one species, which is found &t Ca(y4e)n nLea.t ., Ibid. For the habits of these Insects, see the excellent Memoir of M. Walckenaer, quoted under the article Meloe. (5) Lat., Ibid. See Encyc. M~thod., article Nomie. The tenth volume of the part relative to Insects of this important work also contains several other articles by Messrs Lepeletier and Serville, respecting the Insects of this family. We would particularly notice that of the Parasitu. Some of them go to establish new genera, but a.s we have not been able to compare their characters with sufficient care, we are compelled to omit or }larely mention them . , HYMENOPTERA • riOr extremity of th • 151 0 d r 1'l ated in th c abdom en. •r he th' b e male N · tg s and t'b' The second secti f omtre. I Ire are inflated comprises those s ~;. o _the Anthophila, that of is at least as lo ng pas tthees mIn which the med't ate dt. vtt~sei APIARI...£ ' L at., or setaceous 1'h entum or its tub I on of the It' I I! • e m 'II u ar sh' ld gu a Jorm a sort of rob .ax.t ~ and labium ar te ' and is filifor under. p osctS whtch, when at rest,e . much elongated m 15 g · and The two first . . emculate and b JOmts of h . ent squamous and com r t e labtal palpi most f the two othe p essed seta that emb requently resembl rs are ve races th 'd e a the. exterior extremit ry sf mall; the tht' r d I•s ge e SI 1e s .o f the II' gu I a· pomt. Y 0 the preced'm g one whn'e rha l Y Inserted near' Th A · IC term· e ptarire either }' Inates in a . dT' he former ne ver cot ve. solitarily or f<or m com . m Ividuals d . nstst of more th mumties. pos~erior ' an each ft 1 an the 0 d' legs of their ;rna e provides sing! fo r tnary number of . the t~ner side of the firs~~·!•• are neither fu;nis~e her. young. The pressiOn on tile ex t er. JOint of the tars· d With a brush 10 'd .1, nor w· h on same of the first j . r st e of their tibia:· th• It a particular de covered with h . omt of the tar·si is m ' Is side, as well as tl - A . . airs. • ost common!. te . first dtvision of th y and densely Isn~ rwtehdi ch the second · e··s e solitary Bee s I.S co in the middle ~or'~~ of the posterior ta~~o:;~bof those species rtor and terminal an I e extremity of the rec . e females is in-or to project m g e of the latter d p edmg one· the W ore than in th . . oes not ap ' exte- ·a e may also abstract f e lnterwr, in the foil pe~r to be dilated not. ea-which a . rom this grou . owmg subgener subgenera in thei~larbo~Ilmate to those of t~ecelrtam species-.llndrae. P . lac e d end to end dta palpt', composed of . ast of th e pt·eced' - Illar I . ' an almost . SIX slender r tng y ~·pt. The labru . preciSely similar ' tnear joints ;•l~s ts destitute of a b m IS always short. Th to those of the max: ~r;IShed with tufts of h r~sh; b.ut their posteri e albdomen of the fe. o owers. atrs wh!ch enable the or egs are pilose or Some have narrow m . m to collect the pollen as well as the labru m, smanodoitbhl easn, dc otnetrr ac. ted near the extremit mtnated in a p om. t. y, and, 8YSTROPHA IJJ' Where th , Ig. e mandibles have one dentation under the . pomt, where |