APIS. (**. d. 2. «.) 

 pdstica apice fulvo-pubescentla, antica bar- 

 bata. Tihice posteriores scopa densa. Sco^ 

 pulcE nigricantes. 

 Abdomen subglobosum, pilis atris adspersum, 

 segmentis quataor anticis margine tomentoso- 

 subrufis/. fulvescentibus. Anu3 tomentoso- 

 incanus. Segmentum primum utrinque ful- 

 vescente-villosum. Venter convexuSj nigro- 

 piceus. 

 Maris Fades tota ante antennas lutea. Antennce 

 capite longiores, scapo antrorsum flavo, apice 

 articulo primo breviusculo. Vertex fulvo^ 

 villosus. Trunciis supra pube, densa admo- 

 dum, fulvo-aurea tectus. Sqiiamulce piceee. 

 Digiti articulo extimo apice dilatato. Ahdo-" 

 men segmento primo toto villoso-fulvescenti^ 

 antepenultimo margine pilis non fulvescen- 

 tibus sed albidis tomentoso, ultimo supra cari- 

 nato. Venter hirtus. 

 Var.B corpore cinereo-villoso ; trunco supra 

 pube fiavescenti ; abdomine segmentis mar- 

 gine tomentoso-albis. 

 When my Synopsis Specierum went to the press, 

 I had seen only variety 8 of the male of this in- 

 sect ; but since that, in July last, I took recent 

 specimens of both sexes frequenting the flowers of 

 Erica, in a sunny sand-pit near Combe Wood, a 

 spot well known to the Entomologists of the Me- 

 tropolis, and producing many very rare insects. 

 As all that I was then able to examine agreed to- 

 V 1 gether. 



