106 HYMENOPTERA. 



the pubescence on the legs paler than in the female. The 

 disk of the thorax in both sexes is strongly punctured. 



Taken on High Peak on the flowers of the bramble j the 

 male not previously known. 



Andrena jyrcBtexta (new species). 



Female. Length 61 lines. Black : the pubescence on the 

 head black, except that on the clypeus, whicli is reddish- 

 brown; the flagellum of the antennae obscure rufo-piceous 

 beneath. Thorax : clothed above with dark fuscous pubes- 

 cence, at the sides of the metathorax it is paler ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, with a fuscous cloud beyond the third sub-marginal 

 cell; the nervures pale ferruginous; the apical joints of the 

 tarsi ferruginous, the legs with a fulvous pubescence ; the pos- 

 terior tibiae with pale fulvous pubescence; beneath it is 

 silvery, as is also the floccus on the posterior coxae. Abdo- 

 men ovate and shining, the apical fimbria pale fulvous. 



This bee was taken in company with A. pilipeSj and as 

 I only took one example, I think it possible, notwithstanding 

 the colour of the pubescence, that it may be an extreme 

 variety of A. pilipes. In some respects it otherwise differs 

 from that insect; the abdomen is shorter, and the punctation 

 of the thorax is finer and closer ; the neuration of the wings 

 is the same, but the nervures are paler than in any specimen 

 I have seen of A, 2'>il^V^^y ^^^ •''■ l^^ve seen some hundreds ; 

 the bright anal fimbria is also a strong specific character. 

 Future captures of the insect may determine its claim to 

 specific distinction. I describe and name it provisionally 

 under the circumstances mentioned. 



