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slightly reflexed ; legs in the S clothed with pale hairs, la 

 the ? with black, floccus sooty grey, scopa3 dense, black. 



L. 11-12 mm. 



Eare. SouthwolJ ; Bournemouth. Lowestoft ; Deal 

 Ilfracombe ; Barmouth; (Sinitli). Norwich; (Briihjmaii) 

 Colchester ; (Hanvood). Land's End ; [Marquaml). Rock 

 Ferry, Lancashire ; (Gardner). Sauuton, Nortii Devon 

 (Swale). 



A, simillima, Smith. — Very like jn'j/r/ce^i.s, but rather 

 smaller, c? with the abdomen less pubescent and the apical 

 bands of the segments less dense and conspicuous, J differ- 

 ing from that of nigrieeps in having the pubescence of the 

 face and underside pale fulvous, and that at the base of the 

 abdominal segments above fulvous brown not black, the 

 hairs of the legs and scopas brown not black. 



L. 9-10 mm. 



Rare. Kingsdown near W aimer ; Bournemouth; (Smi/h). 

 Veutnor; [Hothney). Ivybridge ; (Bijnell). Land's End; 

 [Marquand). Ireland; [Ilalidai/). On Bramble flowers. 



The specimens before me, taken by Mr. Marquand near 

 Penzance, are in magnificent condition, and certainly are 

 quite distinct from niijriceps in the colour of the pubescence, 

 &c. ; structurally, however, the two species appear to me to 

 be hardly distinguishable, and I suspect they will probably 

 prove to be races of one. 



A. tridentata, Kirlij {nifitarsis, Kirb. ? ). — Closely 

 allied to slrniilima, but differing in the following particu- 

 lars : — The c? has the antennte pale testaceous beneath, the 

 hairs of the face pale fulvous, the vertex of the head pro- 

 duced more quadrately behind the eyes, with subprominent 

 posterior angles, puncturation of the abdomen distinctly 

 finer, tarsi testaceous except the basal joint ; the ? differs 

 from simillima in being smaller, in the paler colour of the 

 pubescence even in fresh specimens, in having the fla<Tellum 

 of the antenujB beneath and at the apex testaceous, the 

 abdomen less closely and regularly punctured, the aijical 



