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brownish grey hairs. Clypeus black, largely punctured; 

 vertex and face, above the clypeus, rather more finely and 

 closely. Thorax finely and closely punctured; pubescence 

 beneath the wings and round the sides greyish white ; 

 wings somewhat smoky; metathorax finely rugose. Ab- 

 domen with the basal segment black, except at the apex, 

 shining and rather remotely punctured, with a few 

 scattered hairs ; the other segments entirely pale yellow 

 or brown, with the apical margins only pale, dull, very 

 closely and finely punctured, and clothed with very short 

 pale decumbent hairs, and with an apical band of longer 

 hairs ; 5th segment covered with long hairs which are 

 bright golden at its apex, 6th with bright golden hairs, 

 the central naked portion flat and triangular ; beneath 

 with the 3rd and following segments ciliated at the apex. 

 Legs : femora clothed with long white hairs ; tibiae and 

 tarsi with brown hairs, posterior tibiae with the scopte 

 dense and brown, the inner side of the tibiae nearest the 

 body with long white hairs. Length 9 — 10 mm. 



Varies greatly in colour, one or more of the apical 

 segments often being fuscous, and the intermediate seg- 

 ments yellow. 



Hab. A local and generally rare species. Kingsdown, 

 near Deal, Croydon, Dartford, Lewes, Norwich, Parley 

 Heath, Hants, and Coombe Martin, North Devon. I have 

 never taken this species myself ; it occurs on the wild 

 scabious in July and August. 



3. Andrena cingulata, Fab. 



Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 390 (Nomada) ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 32. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with whitish hairs, the 

 pubescence in the <? longer than in the ? ; vertex of the 

 head, and face above the antennae very closely punctured. 

 Clypeus largely punctured, white in the ^ , with the 

 apical margin narrowly and two small discal spots, 

 black ; the face at the sides of the clypeus also white in 

 this sex. ? with a line of short velvety pubescence near 

 the inner margin of the eye. Antennae fulvous beneath, 

 towards the apex, in both sexes. Mesothorax shghtly shin- 

 ing, punctured. Metathorax finely rugose. Abdomen 

 closely punctured, the basal segment, except the extreme 

 apex, and the 4th and following segments, except a spot on 



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