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brown, beneatli punctured, apices of tlie segments with 

 fringes of long hairs ; legs clothed with brown hairs, 

 femora and tibiie in the ? with pale hairs beneath, scopag 

 outwardly, and the tarsi, clothed with black-brown hairs. 



L. 11-12 mm. 



Not common ; it occurs in June and July, and is 

 very partial to the flowers of Bryony. Woking and 

 Chobham. Highgate ; Weybridgo ; Blackwatei-, Hants ; 

 Bideford ; Ilfracombe; {Smith). Bickleigli j Exeter; 

 (Parfitt). C41oucestershire ; (F. B. Perkins). Bexhill ; 

 {Frifhy). Penenden ; (M'/rshall). Easily known from the 

 other red bodied species by the clearly punctured abdomen, 

 and short antennae of the c? . 



A. thoracica, Fab. (c? melanocephala, Kiib)/). — Black; 

 head and thorax rugosely punctured, the former densely 

 clothed with black hairs, and with a fringe of brown hairs 

 posteriorly; thorax densely clothed with bright fulvous hairs 

 above, with black beneath ; abdomen very shining and finely 

 punctured especially in the ? , the second and following 

 segments impressed at the apex, surface clothed with short 

 black hairs in the (?, first and second segments glabrous 

 in the ? , anal fringe black, segments beneath fringed with 

 long black hairs, their bases impressed in the cJ ; legs 

 densely clothed with black hairs. 



L. 13-16 mm. 



A very fine distinct species, occurring in April, and often 

 again in July and August, and sometimes very abundant. 

 It frequents Sallows, Dandelions, and other flowers ; 

 widely distributed in the South of England, but Lancashire 

 is the only northern record I have for it. 



A. nitida, Fom-c. (var. coiistmilis Smith). Very like 

 thoracica but differing in having the face clothed with 

 white hairs, margined with black along the margins 

 of the eyes, the vertex with fulvous; thorax clothed above 

 with fulvous but beneath with white hairs; abdomen 

 shining, punctured, more finely so in the ?, sparingly 



