272 HYMENOPTERA ACULEATA. 



fringe black, the pubescence in the J shorter than in the 

 $, segments beneath fringed with pale hairs; legs clothed 

 with pale hairs, scopfe of $ golden grey, metatarsi beneath 

 with fulvous golden hairs. 



L. 12-14 mm. 



Occurs in July and August. It is not common, but is 

 rather widely distributed. Chobham ; Woking ; Hayling 

 Island ; Littlehampton ; Deal ; Hastings ; Southwold ; 

 Ilfracombe ; Bournemouth. Hampstead ; Gravesend j 

 Erith ; (Smith). Bickleigh, Devon, {Blgnell). Norfolk; 

 [Bridgman). Colchester; {Harwood). 



DASYPODA, Latr. 



Very like Andrena in form, but easily recognized by the 

 absence of the third submarginal cell of the wings, and by 

 the enormous scopffi of the ? ; labial palpi four-jointed, the 

 joints cylindrical, maxillary palpi six-jointed, tongue some- 

 what elongate, lanceolate, paraglosste with the outer 

 margins of their basal portion emarginate, apical process 

 short and narrow, lora long and very strongly developed, 

 submentum elongate, labrum transverse, antennsB simple ; 

 abdomen andreniforui, armature of the c? with the stijjites 

 not convergent, seventh ventral segment produced at the 

 apical angles into a narrow transverse process on each side ; 

 tibise without a patella in either sex. There is only one 

 British species of the genus which makes its burrows in 

 SJiudy places. 



D. hirtipes, Latr. {SwammerdameUa, Kirhij.) — Black, 

 head and thorax clothed with pale yellowish fulvous hairs 

 above, with paler hairs beneath, which are almost white in 

 the c?, vertex and an indistinct band across the mesonotum in 

 the $ with black, clypeus in the ^ with white ; antennas 

 in the $ more or less piceous; mesonotum punctured, 

 wings nearly hyaline, propodeum somewhat shining, largely 



