276 Mr. E. Saunders' Si/nopsis of 



finely rugose, hairy at the sides. Abdomen nearly naked 

 on the disk, finely rugose and rugosely punctured, dull ; 

 the apical margins of the segments impressed and 

 smoother, the extreme apex piceous ; 5th and 6th seg- 

 ments clothed with golden hairs ; apical dorsal valve 

 flat ; beneath punctured, the segments fringed with pale 

 hairs. Legs black, clothed with golden hairs ; scopse 

 golden. Length 9 — 10 mm. 



Hab. Local, but common in many places. Hampstead, 

 Blackwater (Hants), Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Isle of 

 Wight, Bournemouth, near Liverpool, &c. 



The <? is quite distinct from any other species by its 

 hairy unhanded body and white clypeus ; the ? can only 

 be confounded vfitlifidvago, but its black posterior tibiae 

 and its dull rugose abdomen will easily distinguish it. 



43. Andrena lahialis, Kirby. 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl., ii., p. 148; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 62. 



Black, clothed with greyish ochreous hairs. ^ , clypeus 

 and sides of the face white. Abdomen closely and very 

 finely punctured ; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments with a 

 white apical line. ? large, orbital impressions filled 

 with pale golden pubescence. Abdomen with four pale 

 pubescent bands ; apical fimbria golden. Wings slightly 

 dusky ; nervures testaceous. 



<? . Head punctured, clothed with brownish grey 

 hairs ; clypeus white, with a black dot on each side ; 

 sides of the face each with a white spot, adjoining the 

 clypeus and extending upwards to about the level of the 

 antennae. Antennae reaching to the scutellum. Meso- 

 thorax closely and rugosely punctured, clothed with 

 brownish grey hairs. Metathorax with the basal area 

 clathrate, the sides punctured and hairy. Abdomen dull, 

 very closely punctured, especially towards the apex, 

 clothed with short brownish grey hairs ; 2nd, 3rd, and 

 4th segments Avith an apical line of white hairs, that of 

 the 2nd and 3rd widely interrupted ; 6th and 7th seg- 

 ments clothed with golden brown hairs ; beneath punc- 

 tured, apices of the segments piceous, and fringed with 

 golden brown hairs ; apical ventral valve longitudinally 

 curved, looked at sideways, with its apex bifid (see pi. x., 

 figs. 5a, 5h). Legs with greyish hairs; tarsi testaceous 

 at the apex. 



