280 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopsis of 



47. Andrena dorsata, Kirby. 



Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl., ii., p. 144 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 68 = combinata, Kirby, Smith, &c. 

 Var. = counectens, Kirby ? 



Black. Mesothorax clothed with bright fulvous hairs. 

 (? ; abdomen shining, punctured, scarcely rugulose, elon- 

 gate-ellii)tic. ? ; abdomen ovate, 2nd and 3rd segments 

 with a lateral streak, and 4th with an apical band of white 

 or very pale fulvous pubescence ; 5th and 6th segments 

 clothed with brown hairs ; posterior tarsi in both sexes, 

 and often the tibire, more or less testaceous. Wings 

 slightly clouded at the apex ; nervures pale testaceous. 



(? . Face densely clothed with pale fulvous hairs. 

 Antennae reaching to the post-scutellum ; 3rd joint short, 

 scarcely longer than it is wide across the apex. Meso- 

 thorax clothed with fulvous hairs, dull and finely rugu- 

 lose, and with rather large distinct punctures. Meta- 

 thorax rugose, its basal area well defined ; sides with 

 long, pale, fulvous hairs. Abdomen shining, finely punc- 

 tured, scarcely rugulose, clothed with pale hairs on the 

 two basal segments, and with very short dark ones on 

 the 3rd and 4th ; 5th, with a few black ones at the base, 

 its apex and the 6th and 7th clothed with pale fulvous 

 hairs ; apex of each segment piceous, that of the 2nd, 

 3rd, and 4th with a little pale fulvous pubescence on each 

 side ; beneath punctured and finely rugulose, the seg- 

 ments rather widely pale at the apex, and clothed with 

 long pale hairs ; apical ventral valve subtruncate at the 

 apex. Legs clothed with pale fulvous hairs; all the 

 tarsi, and more or less of the apex of the j^osterior tibiae 

 in the autumn form, and the posterior tarsi only in the 

 spring form, pale testaceous. 



? . Face clothed at the sides and round the antennae 

 with pale fulvous hairs ; orbital impressions filled with 

 dark brown velvety pubescence. Mesothorax clothed 

 with bright fulvous hairs, finely rugulose and punctured. 

 Metathorax rugose, basal area clearly defined, and with 

 a slightly raised dorsal line, sides with a dense tuft of 

 curved pale fulvous hairs. Abdomen ovate, very finely 

 punctured, the apex of each segment very narrowly 

 piceous ; basal segment with a few fulvous hairs on each 

 side, 2nd and 3rd with a streak of white or very pale 

 fulvous hairs on each side at the apex, 4th with an entire 



