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tured, 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 tegulse rufo-piceous, the nervures 

 ferruginous; the floccus pale fulvous, the scopa of the same 

 colour beneath, above fuscous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, sub- 

 depressed; the second segment and apical margin of the first 

 red ; the second segment has sometimes a square black spot in 

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

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

 pale fulvous fringe. B.M. 



Var. a. The apical margin of the first and basal margin of the 

 second segments red ; the legs dark rufo-piceous. 



Var. #. 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 flagellum 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 lan- 

 ceolate, 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 in the colouring of the abdo- 

 men ; Mr. Kirby describes five varieties, but the var. 3. and . 

 are individuals of A. florea. A. Rosce is a very local insect; 

 in 1836 a single female occurred, between which year and 1844 

 no one appears to have met with it ; but in August of the latter 

 year fifteen specimens were taken, three of which were males ; 

 the locality was Shirley, near Croydon ; specimens have also 

 been captured at Hastings. 



3. Andrena eximia. 



A. atra, cinereo-subvillosa ; abdominis segmentis tribus basalibus 

 runs. 



Andrena eximia, Smith, Zool. v. 1930. 70 $ . 



Andrena Rosae, Smith, Zool. v. 1665. 2 ? (not var. 2, 3, 4). 



