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Truncus supra fulvo-pubescens. Pedes minu's 

 hirsuti. Tihics antics tomento nullo. Sco^ 

 pulce pallidiores. Abdomen magis angustum, 

 lateribus albido-villosls, segmentis duobus an- 

 ticis fulvo-pubescentibus, reliquis nigro, sed 

 vix conspicue, pilosis. Segmentam antepe- 

 nultimum pallido-ciliatum. v^??f fulvescit fim- 

 bria. Venter planiusculus, villosulus. 

 Var. /3 abdomine subrotundo. 

 Obs. Interdum abdominis segmenti antepenultimi 

 Jimbria nigricat. In adultioribus thoracis et 

 abdominis pubes fulva cinerascit. 

 I do not claim the sole merit of discovering the 

 other sex of this species, and that the long antennae, 

 which form the distinction of the Eucera of Sco- 

 poli and Fabricias, are merely the character of the 

 males ; for Miller, in Mr. Gray's interleaved copy 

 of the Systema Natura3, before quoted, has de- 

 scribed the female of j4. longicornis in the follow- 

 ing terms : " Faemina antennis thorace brevioribus, 

 abdomine latiore segmentis tribus ultimis margine 

 et lateribus pilosis, albicantibus." M. Latreille, 

 also, appears to have made the same observation ; 

 for in a letter to Mr. Mac Leay, dated April 20, 

 1801, he says, '•' Demandez un peu a votre ami 

 s'il a trouve la femelle de VEucera longicornis : car 

 toutes ces abeilles a longues antennes ne sunt que 

 des males." The female has been described both 

 by Schrank and Panzer ; the latter has given a very 

 accurate figure of it^ under the name of Andrena 

 s 4 strigosa. 



