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spicuous in tlie J , but hardly noticeable in the c?, apical 

 fringe golden, segments beneath fringed with white hairs ; 

 legs clothed with pale hairs, the apex and sometimes the 

 base of the posterior tibias and the posterior tarsi testa- 

 ceous in the S , posterior tibije and tarsi and intermediate 

 tarsi bright testaceous in the ? , scopte golden. 



L. 9-12 mm. 



"Woking; Chobham ; Wandsworth. Bristol; {Walcott). 

 Hampstead ; (Enoch). Oxford; Moreton Hampstead ; {It. 

 C, L. Perkins). Colchester; (Harwood). Near Ruthin, 

 Denbighshire; (Gardner). 



A. Wilkella, Kirby (^ranthura, Kirhy ; Afzeliella, pars 

 Saund. Syn. Smith, Sfc). — Very likethe preceding, but much 

 less bright in the colour of its pubescence, that of the head 

 and thorax being dull brownish ; anteunje in the (J with the 

 third joint shorter than the fourth ; the face in both sexes 

 is clothed with very pale brown, not white hairs, and the 

 cheeks beneath, as well as the underside of the thorax are 

 clothed with very pale hairs in the ? , with white in the 

 cJ, and unlike similis, the post scutellum in both sexes 

 is almost hairless, wings slightly clouded ; the abdomen 

 is duller, and more distinctly punctured throughout in the 

 ? than in similifi, and with more abundant pale pubescence, 

 and more closely and strongly punctured in the S, in 

 which sex there is a conspicuous lateral band of pale hairs 

 on the apex of the second and third segments, and an entire 

 band on the fourth, in the ? the lateral bands are rather 

 longer, very pale fulvous in fresh examples, soon fading 

 to white, fourth with an entire band, apical fringe pale 

 golden ; legs clothed with pale hairs, posterior tibiaj and 

 tarsi in the ? , and sometimes the apex of the posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi in the S testaceous ; scopae golden. 



L. 8-10 mm. 



Common, and generally distributed; appears in May and 

 June; it is very liable to be confounded with A/ztlidla, the 

 distinctive characters of which will be found under that name. 



