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the tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the sides of the face, the 

 margin of the vertex, and the cheeks have a pale fulvous pubescence. 

 Thorax : the disk shining and finely punctured, interspersed with 

 a few larger punctures ; the sides and the metathorax have a pale 

 fulvous pubescence ; the legs have a similar pubescence ; the apical 

 joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the tegulaa 

 rufo-piceous, the nervures ferruginous ; the floccus pale fulvous, 

 the scopa of the same colour beneath, above fuscous. Abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, subdepressed ; the second segment and apical margin 

 of the first red ; the second segment has sometimes a square black 

 spot iu the middle ; the apical fimbria fusco-ferruginous ; beneath, 

 the second segment is red, and the margins of the segments have a 

 pale fulvous friuge. B.M. 



Yar. a. The apical margin of the first and basal margin of the second 

 segments red ; the legs dark rufo-piceous. 



Var. /3. A minute red dot on each side of the basal segment and its 

 apical margin red. 



Var. y. The apical margins of the three basal segments rufo- 

 testaceous. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black ; the antennae as long as the thorax, 

 the joints of the Magellan! subarcuate ; the face clothed with a 

 fuscous pubescence. Thorax shining, punctured as in the female ; 

 the pubescence and wings also as in that sex : the legs dark rufo- 

 piceous, the claws ferruginous. Abdomen lanceolate, and having 

 a thinly scattered pale fulvous pubescence ; the apical margins of 

 the three basal segments more or less red or rufo-piceous ; beneath, 

 the second segment is usually red. B.M. 



This is a very variable species and also a very local one ; it has 

 never occurred in any great numbers. I once took about a dozen at 

 Shirley, near Croydon, in August, settling on the flowers of the com- 

 mon bramble ; it has also been taken at Hastings, near Lovers' Seat, 

 at Kingsdown, near Deal, and at Ilfracombe, Korth Devon, also at 

 Sidmouth, South Devon. 



3. Andrena spinigera. 



A. atra, pallido villosa, abdominis segmentis tribus basalibus rufis. 

 Mas ater, fulvo-pilosus, thorace fulvcscente, abdomine fusco ; pedi- 

 bus rufo-fuscis, pilosis. 



Andrena spinigera, Smith, Zool. v. 16G9 $ (nee § ) ; Bees Great Brit. 



74 (nee $ ). 

 Melitta spinigera, Kirhy, Mon. Apum Anql. ii. 123 Si tab. 15. 



fig. 10. 

 Melitta rosa?, Kirbi/, lib. cit. ii. 83, var. a 2- 

 Andrena eximia, Smith, Zool. v. 1930 <$ ; Bees Great Brit. 52. 

 Schenck, Nass. Bien. 236. 



Female. Length 5| lines. — Black ; the face and cheeks have a pale 

 fulvous pubescence; the ilagellum fulvo-testaceous beneath, the 

 mandibles ferruginous at the tips ; thorax with very fine shallow 

 punctures ; the sides and metathorax clothed with pale fulvous 



