1890.] 263 



apical band, the puncturation of the 2nd and following segments is close and very 

 fine, beneath finely punctured ; each segment narrowly fringed with pale hairs at 

 the sides ; legs black, clothed with whitish hairs. Long., 10 mm. 



Three cT and one ? on Irvine Moor, near Glasgow ; July 8th, 

 1899 ; A. A. Dalglish. I am much indebted to Mr. A. A. Dalglish for 

 adding this species to my collection. 



Andrena lapponica, Zett., Ins. Lapp., i, p. 460. 

 This interesting addition to our fauna has been discovered by 

 Mr. H. Elgar at Ightham, in Kent. Formerly we had a lapponica in 

 our list, but it proved not to be Zetterstedt's species, and, therefore, 

 its name had to be changed to that of apicata, Smith. Now, however, 

 the real thing has been found ; the specimens whicli Mr. Elgar took 

 were visiting the flowers of whortleberry early in May, 1895, he only 

 succeeded in taking females, but no doubt he will next year be able to 

 meet with the male. It adds another species for Britain to the per- 

 plexing group, which also includes varlans,lielvola, amhigua , and Jiicata. 

 Of these, fucnta is the most easily recognised, and lapponica is more 

 like that species than the others structurally, although in general 

 appearance its ? might be easily passed over as a varians. The fol- 

 lowing are its principal characteristics : — 



(? . Black. Head and thorax dull, finely and shallowly punctured, face clothed 

 with white hairs, intermixed with black at the sides, labrum shining, not emarginate 

 at the apex, antenna3 with the 3rd and 4th joints subequal in length, 5th and fol- 

 lowing ones rather longer, mandibles with a strong, rather wide tooth at the base 

 externally. Thorax clothed with pale fulvous hairs above, with white on the sides 

 and beneath ; wings with the 2nd submarginal cell much narrower than long ; ab- 

 domen shining, sparsely clothed with pale hairs, 8th ventral segment with the apical 

 pi'ocess nearly parallel-sided, hairy, scai'cely dilated at the apex, legs black, tarsi 

 scarcely paler. 



? . Black, rather stouter than varians ; face densely clothed with black hairs, 

 labrum convex, round, and shining. Thorax clothed with bright fulvous hairs above, 

 with black at tlie sides and beneath, second submarginal cell of wings receiving the 

 recurrent nervure close to the apex ; abdomen shining, its basal segment very finely 

 and remotely punctured, the basal segments sparingly clothed with pale fulvous 

 hairs, the rest with black ; scopae black, their under-sides and floccus sooty-white. 



Ightham, Kent, on whortleberries. May, 1895. Long., 10 to 12 mm. 



The (J is exceedingly like that oi fucata, but the small entire labrum viewed 

 from above, the larger mandibular tooth, and narrower second submarginal cell, will 

 serve to distinguish it, as well as the very diiSerently shaped 8th ventral segment, 

 which va. fucata is considerably dilated at the base of the apical process, as figured 

 by F. D. Morice, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1899, pi. vi, f. 8. The ? could only be con- 

 founded with that sex of varians, but it is a slightly stouter insect, the labrum is 

 less transvei'se and more convex, and the abdomen is much less sti'ongly and less 



