184 APIDJE. 



Eucera longicornis, Scop. Ann. Mist. Nat. iv. 8 $ • 



Lair. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiv. 43. 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 382. 



Brulle, Exped. Sc. de Morte, iii. 334. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 469. 



St.-Fary. Hym. ii. 118. 



Lucas, Exp. Sc. Alger, iii. 159. 



Smith, Zoo!, iv. 1449 ; Bees Great Brit. 197. 



Nyland. Notts, ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flor. Fenn. i. 249. 



Bar, Bull. Mosc. xxiii. 530, tab. 13. fig. 1. 



Schenclc, Nass. Bien. 170. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 58. 

 Apis longicornis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 953 <5, et Cub. Mus. Linn. Soc. 



Scop. Ent. Cam. 298. 



Fabr. Syst. Ent. 388. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 922. 



Christ. Hym. 142, tab. 11. fig. 9 S ■ 



Kirby, Mon. Apum Anyl. ii. 278 tf 2 • 

 Andrena strigosa, Panz. Faun. Germ. 64. 16. 



Female. Length 6|-7 lines. — Black ; the face and labrum clothed 

 with cinereous pubescence, somewhat fulvous on the labrum ante- 

 riorly, the mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax above 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence, on the sides pale yellow, and be- 

 neath cinereous ; tegulae and nervures ferruginous, the wings pale 

 fulvo-hyaliue ; the legs have a fulvous pubescence above, on the 

 tarsi beneath it is ferruginous ; the calcaria pale testaceous, the 

 apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, tips of the claws black. Ab- 

 domen broad, subdepressed, at the base thinly clothed with pale 

 fulvous pubescence ; the second and third segments have laterally 

 on their apical margins a fascia of very short cinereous pubescence, 

 on the fourth segment an entire fascia ; the two apical segments 

 covered with short fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the apical seg- 

 ments have a fulvous fringe. B.M . 



Male. Length 5-7 lines. — Black ; the labrum and clypeus yellow, 

 the pubescence on the face yellowish white ; on the margin of the 

 vertex, disk of the thorax, and two basal segments of the abdo- 

 men it is fulvous ; the antennae as long as the entire insect ; the 

 extreme apex of the abdomeu fulvous ; the wings and legs as in 

 the other sex. B.M. 



This species appears about the middle of May, and is generally 

 distributed in this country, and widely so on the Continent, being 

 found in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, 

 Lapland, Russia, and Siberia. A colony of great extent was found 

 about a mile beyond Southend, in a sloping bank at the foot 

 of which, in the month of October, several years in succession, 

 many specimens of Meloe rugosus were found;" and although the 

 beetle was never traced to the nidus of Eucera, it is very probable 

 that it was parasitic upon it, no other bee except a species of An- 

 drena having been observed burrowing in the same situation. Nomada 

 sexfasciata is the parasite of this species. 



