British Bees / An Introduction into the Studies of the Natural History and Economy of the Bees Indigenous to the British Isles

by William Edward Shuckard

2. acervorum, Fabricius, ♂ ♀. 6-8 lines.

retusa, Kirby.

§§ Males without elongate tufted intermediate tarsi, concolorous with their females.

3. furcata, Panzer, ♂ ♀. 5-6 lines. ([Plate VII.] fig. 1 ♂ ♀.)

furcata, Kirby.

4. quadrimaculata, Panzer, ♂ ♀. 4-5 lines.

vulpina, Kirby.

subglobosa, Kirby.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

The name ἄνθος, φὼρ φωρὸς, 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.