260 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



27. Andrena nigriceps, Kirby. 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii., p. 134, ? (nee ^ ) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., p. 50, ? (nee S ). 



Black. Face and under side in <? with whitish, in ? 

 with black, hairs. Thorax with bright fulvous hairs. 

 Abdomen with wide apical bands of fulvous hairs, the 

 bands of the 3rd and 4th segments in the ^ paler ; anal 

 fimbria in ? black. Legs with pale hairs in S^ , black in 

 2 . Apical ventral valve of <y deeply emarginate. Wings 

 clear ; nervures piceous. 



(? . Head as wide as the thorax or wider, closely 

 punctured, more or less shining on the vertex and behind 

 the eyes ; clypeus emarginate ; labrum tuberculated, 

 hairy at the sides, the tubercle emarginate in front ; 

 face clothed with nearly white hairs on the clypeus, and 

 with very pale fulvous hairs above it. Antennse not 

 quite reaching to the scutellum ; 3rd joint about once 

 and a half as long as the 4th ; 4th slightly shorter than 

 5th. Mesothorax clothed with bright fulvous hairs, 

 largely and deeply punctured and shining on the disk, 

 closely and finely round the edges. Scutellum shining 

 at the base, punctured at the apex, with an irregular 

 dorsal line of punctures. Metathorax dull, finely rugose, 

 the sides of the basal area indicated by a smoother, 

 somewhat shining, line. Abdomen dull, punctured ; 1st 

 and 2nd segments almost entirely clothed with fulvous 

 hairs ; 3rd and 4th segments clothed with paler shorter 

 hairs, and with a distinct pale apical band ; 5th and 6th 

 segments with black hairs at the base, pale at the apex ; 

 apical fimbria brown ; beneath punctured ; the segments 

 with long white apical fringes ; apical ventral segment 

 deeply emarginate and testaceous at the apex. Legs 

 clothed with pale hairs ; tarsi piceous at the apex. 



? . Face densely clothed with black hairs. Clypeus 

 rugosely punctured. Vertex with fulvous-brown hairs. 

 Thorax densely clothed with fulvous-brown hairs above, 

 with black below ; sculptured as in the 3' - Abdomen 

 dull, punctured ; 1st and 2nd segments almost entirely 

 clothed with pale fulvous hairs ; the 3rd and 4th with 

 black hairs at the base, with fulvous hairs at the apex, 

 forming a wide apical fascia ; 5th and 6th clothed with 

 black hairs ; apical dorsal valve not punctured, im- 

 pressed at the sides ; beneath punctured, clothed with 

 sooty black hairs. Legs densely covered with black 



