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apical segments densely so, beneath shining and finely 

 punctured in the $ , densely punctured and dull in the ? ; 

 posterior tibias in the ? with the scopa white outwardly. 



L. 12-15 mm. 



Cannot be confounded with any of our other species; it 

 is not very common, appearing in April and sometimes 

 again in July and August. It frequents Dandelions, 

 Thistles, &c. Chobhani ; Hastings ; Bournemouth. South- 

 end ; Dareuth ; Shirley; Sidmouth ; (Smith). Lizard; 

 (Dale). Land's End; [Marquand). Ventnor ; Ipswich; 

 {Uuthney). Colchester ; (Hancood). Eamsgate ; {Mar- 

 sh(dl). Norfolk; [Bridijman). Bury St. Edmund's; 

 {Tuck). 



A. tibialis, KhJi. {atriceps Kii-by ; stylopized^J = Mouf- 

 fetclla KirO). Black ; head pnnctured, more or less longi- 

 tudinally strigose above the antennae especially in the (J, 

 which has also the face densely clothed with brown hairs, 

 the mandibles simple at the base, and the antennae thick, 

 reaching a little beyond the middle of the propodeum, in 

 the ? the face is clothed with whitish hairs intermixed 

 with a few dark ones at the sides ; thorax entirely clothed 

 with pale fulvous hairs in the ^ and in the $ with bright 

 fulvous hairs above, and with pale at the sides and beneath, 

 mesonotum largely and rugosely punctured in both sexes, 

 wings subhyaline, propodeum with a well-defined clathrato 

 basal area ; abdomen rugosely punctured, clothed with pale 

 hairs, which form indefinite bands at the apices of the 

 segments, and are intermixed on the apical segments in 

 the c? with darker ones, 9 with the fifth segment densely 

 fringed at the apex, and the sixth at the sides, with browu 

 hairs, the centre of the latter slightly raised ; ventral 

 segments fringed at the apex with long pale hairs, punc- 

 tured very closely in the ? , in which sex each has a slight 

 central impression near the apex, cJ armature very large ; 

 legs clothed with pale fulvous hairs in the S , femora in 

 the ? with white hairs, floccus white, intermediate tibial 



