262 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



pale brownish hairs ; labrum tuberculatecl, the tubercle 

 deei^ly sulcate down the middle ; mandibles long and 

 falcate ; cheeks with a slight angle at the base of the 

 mandibles ; antennae not reaching to the scutellum ; 

 vertex shining, irregularly punctured, quadrately pro- 

 duced behind the eyes, its posterior margin deeply 

 emarginate. Mesothorax dull, finely punctured, clothed 

 on the disk sparingly with black-brown hairs, on the 

 sides with paler hairs. Scutellum shining, remotely 

 punctured. Metathorax finely rugose, clothed, with long 

 pale hairs. Abdomen subelliptic ; basal segment with 

 long scattered pale hairs ; 2nd with a band of short pale 

 hairs at the apex on each side, and a few long scattered 

 hairs on the disk ; 3rd and 4th with an entire apical 

 band; the base of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments 

 clothed with erect black-brown hairs, and the 5th. and 

 following segments entirely so clothed ; beneath 2nd to 

 5th segments with long pale apical fringes ; apical valve 

 rounded at apex. Legs piceous; tibiae and tarsi with 

 reddish brown hairs, tarsi testaceous. 



2 . Rather like the ^ , but with the head less quad- 

 rate on the vertex ; the thorax clothed as in that sex. 

 Abdomen dull, elliptic ; basal segment and disk of the 

 2nd with long scattered hairs ; apex of the 2nd, 3rd, and 

 4th with an entire band of decumbent whitish hairs ; the 

 disk of these segments with short black hairs ; 5th at 

 the apex with sooty hairs ; 6th clothed with nearly black 

 hairs ; apical dorsal valve punctured, flat, with its 

 margins reflexed ; beneath with long pale hairs. Legs : 

 femora with pale hairs ; tibiae and tarsi with red-brown 

 hairs, those of the scopae rather duller, those of the tarsi 

 brighter, tarsi piceous. Length 9 — 11 mm. 



Hah. Not uncommon. Chobham, Bournemouth, 

 Carlisle, Southend. F. Smith says he has taken it on 

 Bryony ; I have taken it myself on Senecio and thistle- 

 heads. It is a very distinct species, and I do not think 

 it can be confounded with any other. 



30. Andrena fuscipes, Kirby. 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii., p. 136 = jmhescens, Ku'by ; 

 Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 2nd ed., p. 51. 



Black. Head and thorax clothed with fulvous hairs, 

 often almost grey in the <? . Abdomen in the <? densely 



