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7. Andrena cingulata. 



A. nigra, cinereo-subpubescens ; abdomine glabriusculo, cingulo 

 ferrugineo utrinque puncto nigro. 



Nomada cingulata, Fair. Sp. Ins. i. p. 488. 8 ? ; Mant. Ins. i. 307. 

 10 ; Ent. Syst. ii. 349. 15 ; Syst. Piez. p. 394. 17. 



Rossi, Mant. p. 326. 



Apis albilabris, Panz. Faun. Germ. 56. 23 $ . 

 .Apis sphegoides, Panz. Faun. Germ. 56. 24 $ . 

 Andrena sphegoides, Spin. Ins. Lig. fasc. i. p. 121. 6. 

 Melitta cingulata, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 88. 41. 

 Andrena cingulata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 257. 29. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 210. 3 ; Revis.Ap. Boreal, p. 251. 5. 



Smith, Zool v. 1668. 5. 



Female. Length 4^ lines. Black and shining, the pubescence 

 cinereous ; a line of white pile on each side of the face along 

 the inner margin of the eyes; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath. 

 Thorax : the tegulae rufo-piceous, the wings subhyaline, faintly 

 clouded at their apical margins, the nervures nigro-piceous ; the 

 floccus and scopa beneath white, the latter fulvous above. Ab- 

 domen ovate, delicately punctured, the second and third seg- 

 ments and the apical margin of the first red ; the second has 

 on each side a minute fuscous dot, the apical fimbria fulvous. 



B.M. 



Male. This sex only differs from the female in having the cly- 

 peus white, with two black dots, and the abdomen more convex 

 above. B.M. 



This pretty little species is not uncommon, but rather local ; 

 during June and July it has occurred for many years at the side 

 of Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, frequenting the flowers of the 

 Germander Speedwell. 



8. Andrena ferox. 



A. nigra, pallide fulvo-villosa ; abdomine nitido; tibiis plantis- 

 que posticis fulvis. 



Andrena ferox, Smith, Zool. v. 1670. 8 ^ . 



Andrena distincta, Smith, Zool. v. 1744. 30 $ (nee Lucas, Expto. 

 Sc. Alger.}. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black : the face thinly clothed with 

 fulvous pubescence, the antennas nearly as long as the thorax : 

 the clypeus coarsely punctured, and having in the centre a lon- 

 gitudinal shining space. Thorax : the sides have a dense pale 



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