British Hymenoptera, 27 S 



40. Andrena fulvago, Christ. 



Christ, Hym., p. 189, pi. xvi., fig. 7; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 59 = constricta, Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 

 2nd ed., p. 56. 



Black ; head and thorax clothed with fulvous hairs ; 

 clypeus black in both sexes. Abdomen shining, strongly 

 punctured ; apical fimbria bright golden. Posterior tibiae 

 and all the tarsi translucent, clear testaceous ; scopse 

 clothed with bright golden hairs. Wings slightly dusky; 

 nervures piceous. 



(? . Face clothed with fulvous-brown hairs, with a 

 line of darker ones on each side ; clypeus largely and 

 coarsely punctured ; labrum simple. Antennae reaching 

 to about the scutellum ; the joints at their bases, 

 especially those towards the apex, with a narrow band 

 of fine, pale, very short pubescence in front, giving the 

 appearance of being banded with grey. Mesothorax 

 rather densely clothed with fulvous-brown hairs, some- 

 what shining, strongly and deeply punctured. Meta- 

 thorax finely rugose, rather sparingly clothed with 

 fulvous hairs. Abdomen subovate, deeply punctured; 

 1st segment sometimes slightly constricted at the apex ; 

 1st segment, base of 2nd, sides of all the segments, a 

 line at the apex of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and the whole 

 of the 6th and 7th, clothed with pale fulvous hairs ; 

 those of the 6th and 7th brighter and more golden ; apex 

 of each segment narrowly impressed and testaceous, the 

 impressions nearly impunctate ; beneath with the apex 

 of each segment testaceous, clothed with long hairs, and 

 with a dense fringe of golden hairs. Legs with golden 

 hairs ; posterior tibiae and all the tarsi clear testaceous. 



? . Very like the <? , but larger. Antennae shorter, and 

 without the grey pubescent bands. Thorax and abdomen 

 much as in the <? , but the 5th and 6th segments clothed 

 with very bright golden hairs ; ventral dorsal valve flat, 

 punctured ; beneath with the segments fringed with long 

 golden hairs. Legs clothed with golden hairs ; posterior 

 tibiae and all the tarsi very bright clear testaceous ; the 

 scopae golden; the hairs long and plumose. Length 

 9 — 10 mm. 



Hah. Not common; Chobham, Weybridge, Black- 

 water, Isle of Wight, Bristol, &c. 



The var. of the <? with the 1st segment slightly con- 

 stricted at the apex — ^ A. cunstrkta, Smith ; it possesses 



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