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pale brown hairs, oa the rest with black, the pubesceuco 

 denser in the ? than in the ^ , and that at the apex of 

 each segment rather paler, the extreme apex of each 

 polished and shining, segments beneath fringed with long 

 brown hairs, apical valve in the ^ truncate, armature 

 small ; legs clothed with brown haiis, except the posterior 

 pair in the ? which have the tloccus, the hairs of the 

 femora and the scopae, bright fulvous. 



L. 12-14. mm. 



Common and generally distributed in the spring, but not 

 one of the earliest species. Mr. Enock, Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 sxi. p. 231, records a living example of the S dug up on 

 December 30th, 188-4. It is partial to the Dandelion, but 

 occurs on other flowers. Very like tibialis but the clear 

 testaceous tibite and enclosed clathrate propodeal area of 

 that species will distinguish it at once ; from ros(e var. 

 Trimmcraha, the fulvous scopiB of this species will separate 

 it easily. Not unfrequently found stylopized. 



A. Gwynana, Kirh. (second brood = hicolor, Fah. ). — 

 Much smaller than any of the preceding ; black, head densely 

 clothed with black hairs, with a few paler ones on the 

 vertex, antenna3 in the ^ with the third joint not nearly, in 

 the ? about, as long as the following two together, mandibles 

 simple in the ^ '> thorax clothed above with dull brownish 

 hairs in the ^, with dark fulvous brown in the ? and 

 black beneath in both sexes, but the colour of thocJ, espe- 

 cially, fades very quickly, wings slightly clouded, propodeum 

 finely rugose ; abdomen somewhat shining, finely and 

 rather indefinitely punctured in the ? of both broods, 

 somewhat indefinitely in the (J of the spring brood, but 

 very distinctly in that of the autumn, apical impressions 

 shining and impunctate, sparingly clothed with pale hairs 

 on the first and second segments of the $ , and with fulvous 

 hairs on the first three segments of the ? , with short black 

 hairs on the rest, intermixed in the (J with pale ones, the 

 hairs at the apices of the segments paler, apical fringe 



