76 AXDKEMD.E. 



1. Cilissa haemorrhoidalis. 



ft atra, pallide pubescens, thoracis limbo fulvescente ; abdomine 

 ovato, basi retusa, auo fulvo-aureo. 



Cilissa hsemorrhoidalis, Leach, Edin. Encycl. ix. 155. 



Smith, Zoo I. vi. 2207; Bees Great Brit. 109. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Mulish, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 268. 



Sehenck, Xass. Bien. 210. 



Thorns. Ilyrn. Sound, ii. Go. 

 Andrena kasmorrhoidalis, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 313 ; Syst. Piez. 327 § . 



Panz. Faun. Germ. B5. 20 $. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 459. 

 Melitta chrvsura, Kirln/, Mon. Apum Aiujl. ii. 172 <$ §. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 214. 

 Kifbya chrvsura, St.-Farg. lib. cit. 140. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Siillsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 246. 



Female. Length 5|-6 lines. — Black; the face clothed with short 

 pale fulvous pubescence ; the flagellum, except the extreme base, 

 fulvo-piceous beneath ; the margin of the vertex fringed with 

 black pubescence. Thorax, the middle of the disk clothed with 

 black pubescence, around which it is fulvous ; on the sides and 

 beneath it is paler; legs dark rufo-piceous, their pubescence short 

 and fulvous, the scopa bright fulvous, the tarsi beneath ferrugi- 

 nous, the apical joint pale rufo-testaceous ; wings subhyaline, 

 faintly clouded at their apical margins, the nervures fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, subdeprcssed ; at the base a little 

 pale pubescence ; the apical margins of the intermediate segments 

 have a very narrow fringe of white pubescence, frequently more or 

 less obliterated ; the fifth and sixth segments densely clothed with 

 golden-fulvous pubescence. 13. M. 



Male. Length 4^-5 lines. — The face densely clothed with bright 

 pale fulvous pubescence ; antenna?, the joints excavated beneath 

 and subdentate at their apex, not quite so long as the thorax. 

 Thorax, the middle of the disk having a thin black pubescence ; 

 the rest of the thorax densely clothed with pale fulvous ; the legs 

 have a similar clothing ; the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous ; 

 wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their margins ; the nervures 

 ferruginous. Abdomen elongate-ovate, convex ; the two basal 

 segments have a thin pale pubescence ; on the following it is black, 

 intermixed at the sides with pale fulvous hairs ; the apex fulvous. 



B.1L 



This insect appears about the middle of July, and is found up to 

 the end of August ; it appears to restrict its visits to the flowers of 

 Campanula rotundifolia (the common bluebell). It is local, but 

 plentiful in certain localities ; it has been found at Shirley, Kings- 

 down (near Deal), "NVey bridge, Bournemouth, Bristol, Norwich, &c. 



