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punctured, the impressions wide, somewhat discoloured and 

 smoother than the disc. 



Of the same size as minutula. 



Unfortunately I destroyed the armature of my only ^ in dis- 

 secting it out. 



(^ 1, $ 3. Constantine, on Scdiim cceruhum, 13 and 16, v, 



95. {A. E. E.) 

 ^ 1, „ on Ferula communis, 20, v, 95. 



(A. E. E.) 

 % 1. Algiers, 14, iii, 98. {F. D, M.) 



Andrena eta. 



Very like the above in puncturation but with long brown hairs 

 on the face in the region of the antennse, these latter have 2nd 

 and 4th joints subequal, and the 3rd shorter, the mesonotum exhibits 

 no sign of puncturation and the abdominal fringes are unusually 

 long and bright. 



$. Bone, 2, iii, 96. {A. E. E.) 



Andrena theta. 



A rather large ^ with very long white hairs on the head and 

 thorax, those of the face mixed with sooty-coloured hairs, clyjjeus 

 rugulose and very strongly punctured, antenna3 testaceous-brown 

 beneath, 2nd joint of flagellum nearly as long as the 3rd and 4th 

 together, 3rd slightly shorter than the 4th, the rest subquadi-ate 



gradually increasing in length towards the apex. Mesonotum finely 

 rugulose and with some scattered shallow punctures, propodeum 

 finely rugulose its area scarcely determined, abdomen elongate, 

 very finely rugulose with an exceedingly fine puncturation scattered 

 among the rugulosities of the 2nd and following segments, apices of 

 the segments slightly discoloured but scarcely impressed, the sculp- 



