68 AXDKKNIDJE. 



Female. Length 4 Hues. — Head, a line of silvery pile on each side 

 of the face : the face, above the antennae, longitudinally striate ; the 

 clypeus rather strongly punctured ; the antennae nigro-piceous be- 

 neath, the cheeks covered with silvery white pubescence. Thorax 

 thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, on the sides of the 

 metathorax and beneath it is cinereous ; the legs have a glittering 

 silvery pubescence ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Ab- 

 domen ovate, shining, and very finely and closely punctured ; the 

 apical margins of the three intermediate segments fringed with 

 white pubescence, the first usually interrupted ; the apical fimbria 

 fuscous, intermixed with glittering silvery hairs. B.M. 



Male. Length 3 lines. — The pubescence silvery white, thinly scat- 

 tered on the disk of the thorax and faintly yellow ; the tegulae 

 fulvo-testaceous ; wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent; the 

 apical joints of the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen very 

 glossy and smooth ; the basal segment has on each side a short 

 fringe of snow-white pubescence, on the four following the fringe 

 is slightly interrupted. 



This species appears towards the end of July. I have always 

 observed it frequenting the purple heath. First taken at Sandhurst, 

 Berks, in August, and in the same month at Weybridge, and very 

 plentifully at Bournemouth. 



56. Andrena dorsata. 



A. cinereo subvillosa, thorace fulvo, metathorace utrinque fimbria 

 pallida: abdomiue fasciis tribus albis, antica interrupta ; plantis 

 tibiisque posticis rufis. 



Andrena dorsata, Smith, Zool. v. 1918; Bees Great Brit. 98 J $ . 

 Melitta dorsata, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 144 5 . 

 Melitta nudiuscula, Kirbi/, lib. cit. 155 ? 

 Melitta lewinella, Kirby, lib. cit. 149 J ? 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Black ; the face has a cinereous pubes- 

 cence, and on each side a line of fulvous pile as high as the vertex 

 of the eyes ; the fiagellum sometimes rufo-testaceous towards the 

 apex beneath. Thorax clothed with short fulvous pubescence, 

 thinly scattered on the disk, but dense on the scutellum ; the sides 

 of the metathorax have a thick curled fringe of pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; the tegulae ferruginous ; the wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures pale ferruginous ; the legs rufo-testaceous, the apical 

 joints of the anterior and intermediate tarsi and the posterior tibiae 

 and tarsi ferruginous, the floccus white, the scopa pale fulvous 

 intermixed with glittering hairs. Abdomen subovate, very glossy. 

 delicately and closely punctured ; the three intermediate segments 

 have a narrow white fringe on their apical margins ; the first 

 usually, and sometimes the second, interrupted; the apical fimbria 

 fulvous; beneath, the margins of the segments have a long fringe 

 of pale pubescence. B.M. 



