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Local but very widely distributed, and occurring both in 

 Scotland and Ireland ; still I have never taken it either at 

 Woking or Chobham. Mr. Bradley tells me that a speci- 

 men of the S of this species together with two females of 

 the following species were dug up alive on the :J8th of 

 December, 1893, from a railway bank near Birmingham. 



A. fulva, Sclir. [S = armntn, Kirb.). — Thorax above, 

 densely clothed with bright brown hairs in both sexes, 

 those of the ? nearly red, abdomen sparingly in the c?> 

 very densely in the $ , clothed with similar hairs to that 

 of the thorax, though of a very slightly paler colour ; 

 clypeus clothed with white hairs in the ^J, underside and 

 legs with pale fulvous ; face, apex of abdomen, underside 

 and legs in the ? densely clothed with black hairs ; 

 mandibles in the cJ long and falcate, with a sharp tooth 

 exteriorly, at the base, antennte with the third joint not 

 quite so long as the fourth and fifth together ; wings in 

 both sexes subhyaline, propodeal area finely rugose, apical 

 ventral segment in the ^ truncate and testaceous at its 

 apex; apex of the posterior tibife and the posterior and 

 intermediate tarsi in the ^ , more or less testaceous, cal- 

 caria in both sexes pale. 



L. 12-14 mm. 



Very abundant in many localities and widely distributed, 

 but I have no record of it from either Scotland or Ireland. 

 It frequents Sallows and other spring flowers. The ? is 

 unlike any other British bee, the (J could only be con- 

 founded with the TrimmTana var. of rosx which, however, 

 essentially differs in the simple mandibles, and fulvous 

 haired clypeus, or with lapponica which ditfers in the less 

 brightly coloured pubescence and the shorter third joint of 

 the antennce, which is not nearly so long as the fourth and 

 fifth together. Rarely stylopized. 



A. Clarkella, J5"u-t. — Black, the cj entirely clothed 

 with brownish hairs, ? clothed with bright brown hairs 

 on the thorax, and posterior tibia) and tarsi, its head, 



