The group Scopulipedes includes such long-tongued, solitary bees as are not parasitic, and do not belong to the Dasygastres. It is not, however, a natural group, for the carpenter-bees (_Xylocopa_) are very different from _Anthophora_. It has recently been merged by Friese with Andrenides into a single group called Podilegidae. Four British genera, _Ceratina_, _Anthophora_, _Eucera_ and _Saropoda_ (including, however, only seven {33}species), are referred to the Scopulipedes; in some forms a considerable resemblance to the Bombi is exhibited, indeed the female of one of our species of _Anthophora_ is so very like the worker of _Bombus hortorum_ var. _harrisellus_, that it would puzzle any one to distinguish them by a superficial inspection, the colour of the hair on the hind legs being the only obvious difference. _Anthophora_ is one of the most extensive and widely distributed of the genera of bees. Some of the species make burrows in cliffs and form large colonies which are continued for many years in the same locality. Friese has published many details of the industry and metamorphoses of some of the species of this genus; the most remarkable point he has discovered being that _A. personata_ at Strasburg takes two years to accomplish the life-cycle of one generation. Some of the European species of the genus have been found to be very subject to the attacks of parasites. An anomalous beetle, _Sitaris_, has been found in the nests of _A. pilipes_; and this same _Anthophora_ is also parasitised by another beetle, _Meloe_, as well as by a bee of the genus _Melecta_.