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APIDJE. 



also, occasionally, on the fifth ; the fifth segment with a trans- 

 verse white line. B.M. 



This is a rare species ; it appears in July. "What bee it is parasitic 

 upon is not known ; but I once took two or tbree females in Fern 

 Wood, near Ilfracombe, within a few yards of a colony of Halictus 

 minutus. It was first discovered by the Eev. Mr. Rudd, at Yarm, 

 Yorkshire ; Mr. Bridginan has taken it near Norwich. 



12. Nomada furva. 



N. atra, scutello rufo-bimaculato, abdomine rufo-cincto. Mas 

 abdoinine flavo-maculato. 



Nomada furva, Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 23 J . 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 405 <$ $ . 



Smith, Zool. ii. 590 ; Bees Great Brit. 132. 

 Apis rufo-cincta, Kirby, Mon.Ap. Angl. ii. 216 $ var. 

 Apis sheppardana, Kirby, lib. cit. 217$. 

 Nomada minuta, Fair. Syst. Piez. 304. 



Sehiiff. Germ. Zeits. i. 278. 



Nyland. Notts, ur Sails!,-, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 184. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 105. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 94; Hym. Sound, ii. 203. 

 Nomada dalii, Curtis, Brit. Ent. ix. tab. 410 J. 



Female. Length 2 lines. — Head and thorax black, the anterior 

 margin o" the clypeus, the labrum, mandibles, and orbits of the eyes 

 ferruginous ; the antennae ferruginous beneath, the apical joint en- 

 tirely so. Thorax — the collar, tubercles, tegulse, a large lunate 

 spot beneath the wings and a dot above uniting with it, a spot 

 behind the wings, two larger ones on the scutellum, and the post- 

 scutellum ferruginous ; the wings subhyaline, and having a dark 

 fuscous cloud at their apical margins ; the legs rufo-piceous, the 

 apex of the joints and the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen rufo-piceous, 

 the first and second segments having a ferruginous band, the apex 

 ferrugiDous, the band on the basal segment having two black dots; 

 sometimes a pale spot on the second and third segments laterally. 

 {A. rufocincta, Kirby.) E.M. 



Var. /3. The basal segment only having an obscure ferruginous band. 

 (A. sheppardana, Kirby.) 



Hale. Length 2 lines. — Head and thorax black; the margin of the 

 clypeus narrowly, the labrum, and a spot on the mandibles towards 

 their apex reddish yellow ; two fuscous spots on the labrum ; the 

 tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the tips of the scape beneath 

 and the flagellum beneath reddish yellow, the apical joint entirely 

 so; a minute yellow spo„ at the vertex of the eyes. Thorax — the 

 tubercles and tegulae ferruginous ; tbe sides of the metathorax have 

 a little silvery pubescence ; the legs rufo-piceous, their joints pale, 

 as well as the anterior femora and tibia? in front ; wings as in the 

 female. Abdomen black, the basal segment having two minute 

 dots about the middle, the second a line or dot on each side, and 



