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and having a scattered pale fulvous pubescence, the margins of 

 the segments rufo-testaceous. B.M. 



I feel pretty sure that I am correct in assigning the female 

 described to A. spinigera ; they were found at the same time 

 and in the same locality. The female closely resembles A. 

 Trimmerana, but the different colour of their scopse distin- 

 guishes them at once. Mr. Kirby describes his insect as a fe- 

 male ; this is an oversight. The species is very local, and appa- 

 rently not very numerous ; it occurs however in the neighbour- 

 hood of Highgate, and has also been captured in Epping and 

 Hainault Forests, and in the New Forest, Hampshire. 



28. Andrena picicornis. 



A. nigra, grisescenti-subvillosa ; capite atro; antennis piceis; 

 abdomine fusco. 



Melitta picicornis, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 123. 62. 

 Andrena picicornis, Smith, Zool. v. 1745. 33. 



Female. Length 5^-6 lines. Black ; the face clothed with black 

 pubescence, that on the margin of the clypeus is obscure ful- 

 vous ; the flagellum rufo-piceous. Thorax thinly clothed with 

 obscure fulvo-ochraceous pubescence, paler on the metathorax 

 and on the sides; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures pale 

 ferruginous ; the legs rufo-testaceous, having a pale fulvous 

 pubescence beneath, the floccus of the same colour ; the scopa 

 fulvous ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, their pubes- 

 cence beneath ferruginous. Abdomen ovate, fuscous, shining, 

 and having a scattered pale fulvous pubescence, the margins of 

 the segments rufo-testaceous ; the apical fimbria fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Very closely resembling the female, 

 but more elongate, the face clothed with ferruginous pubes- 

 cence ; the antennae shorter than the thorax, the joints of the 

 flagellum subarcuate ; the legs rufo-piceous, the posterior tibiae 

 and the tarsi rufo-fulvous, their pubescence fulvous. Abdomen 

 elongate-ovate, shining, the margins of the segments obscurely 

 rufo-testaceous, those of the three basal segments have a spa- 

 ring pale fringe, on the fourth and fifth it is longer and more 

 dense, the pubescence on the two apical segments fuscous, 

 mixed with a few fulvous hairs at the apex. 



This appears to be a very local species. Mr. Walcott cap- 

 tured it near Brighton ; all the examples which I have seen 



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