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piiucturod ami clotlied with long hairs ; abdomen sliiuiug, 

 largely punctured S , more finely ? , first three segmcuts in 

 the cT nearly entirely clothed with long pale hairs, the rest 

 with black, the fourth, fifth, and sixth with a pale apical 

 band, basal segment in the ? clothed with pale hairs, all 

 the rest with black, the second, third, and fourth with 

 a subapical band of white hairs, that of the second and third 

 narrowly interrupted in the centre, fifth and sixth densely 

 clothed with erect black hairs, all the segments narrowly 

 smooth and piceous at the apex, segments beneath clothed 

 in the S with pale hairs, the fifth with black, the sixth 

 nearly glabrous, in the ? the segments fringed with sooty 

 black hairs ; legs in the $ clothed with long pale hairs, 

 tarsi beneath with bright fulvous, anterior legs in the 

 ? clothed with dark hairs in front and pale behind, 

 interuiediate with brown, posterior with fulvous, those of 

 the tibife and metatarsi of the last extremely long, 

 beautifully branched, and bright golden fulvous, apices of 

 the tarsi testaceous. 



L. 15-16 mm. 



This very handsome iusect appears in July and August, 

 and in some sandy localities is far from uncommon. It has 

 been recorded from Yarmouth and places along our east 

 and 'south coasts, westward to Land's End, occurring 

 again at Braunton, Barmouth, and in Cheshire and 

 Lancashire. I take it occasionally at Woking and Chob- 

 ham, and F. Smith quotes Charltou and Paul's Cray, Kent, 

 as localities for it. Mr. Harwood takes it at Colchester, 

 but it is recorded from very few inland localities. 



PANURGUS, Panz. 



This is a genus of coal-black bees, of which wo have 



two Jiritish representatives, they are distinctly Andre- 



niforvi, and resemble Andrrna also in liabits ; labial 



palpi four-jointed, the joints cylindrical, the ba^al joint 



