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

Family MELLICOLLIGERÆ (Honey collectors), Shuck.

Subfamily 1. Andrenides (Subnormal Bees), Leach.

Syn. Genus Melitta, Kirby.

The maxillary palpi always six-jointed.

Section 1. With lacerate paraglossæ.

Subsection a. Linguæ emarginatæ (with emarginate tongues).

Syn. Obtusilingues, Westw.

Three submarginal cells to the wings.

Genus 1. Colletes, Latreille.

([Plate I.] fig. 1. ♂ ♀.)