236 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



the impressed portion punctured ; 5tli and 6tli in the ? , 

 and 6th and 7th in the ^ densely covered with black 

 hairs ; beneath, the segments of the 3' are shining, of 

 the ? dull and densely punctured. Length 12 — 15 mm. 



Hah. Not common ; appearing sometimes as early 

 as April, and found in August on flowers of Ruhus, 

 thistles, &c. Southend, Darenth, Shirley Common, 

 Sidmouth, Norwich, Hastings, Chobham, Bourne- 

 mouth, &c. 



I do not think this species can be confounded with any 

 other. Much worn specimens of the 3 of thoracica 

 sometimes rather resemble it, but the enclosed clathrate 

 space on the metathorax and the punctured apical 

 impressions of the abdominal segments will distinguish 

 the present species easily. 



6. Andrcna atriccps, Kirby. 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl., ii., p. 70 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 43. Stylopized 3^ = Moufetella, 

 Kirby. 



Thorax clothed with brown hairs. Face in the 3 with 

 brown mixed with black, in the ? with whitish, hairs. 

 Abdomen clothed with pale hairs. Both sexes with a 

 clathrate enclosure at the base of the metathorax. ? with 

 the posterior tibiae and tarsi clear testaceous. Scopse 

 golden. 



(? . Head punctured and longitudinally strigose above 

 the antennae ; face densely clothed with brown hairs, 

 more or less mixed with black. Mandibles simple at the 

 base. Antennae reaching not quite to the apex of the 

 metathorax. Thorax densely clothed with rather pale 

 brown hairs ; mesothorax irregularly and deeply punc- 

 tured ; metathorax clathrately rugose at the base. 

 Abdomen elongate-ovate, rather densely clothed with 

 upriglit pale hairs ; the hairs of the 5tli and 6th segments 

 mixed with black; each segment, except the 1st, im- 

 pressed at the apex, and with a very narrow apical band 

 of slightly paler hairs ; apical segment clothed with 

 brown hairs. Surface finely punctured, scarcely shining. 

 Beneath with posterior margins of the segments narrowly 

 testaceous, fringed with longish hairs ; genitalia very 

 large. Legs black; the tibife of the posterior pair 

 generally more or less testaceous towards the apex (but 

 this is not a constant character) ; tarsi testaceous. 



