BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 95 



54. Andrena analis. 



A. nigra, cinerascenti-villosa ; abdomine nitido, fasciis interruptis 

 albidis ; tarsis tibiisque posticis fulvis. 



Andrena analis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 90. 14 $ , 15 $ . 



Smith, Zool. v. 1920. 53. 



Andrena tarsata, Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 223. 22 <? ? ; Revis. Ap. 

 Boreal, p. 259. 32 $ . 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black ; the face thinly clothed with 

 griseous pubescence, but having a slight fulvous stain on the 

 margin of the clypeus ; the flagellum fulvo-piceous towards the 

 apex beneath. Thorax : the pubescence sparing and griseous 

 on the disk, but dense and white at the sides of the meta- 

 thorax ; wings subhyaline, iridescent, the nervures ferrugi- 

 nous ; the fioccus white, the scopa bright fulvous, the posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi, and the apical joints of the anterior and poste- 

 rior tarsi, rufo-fulvous. Abdomen shining, ovate, and having 

 a short white marginal fringe on the apical margins of the 

 segments, that on the first frequently obliterated, and those on 

 the second and third usually widely interrupted; the apical 

 fimbria fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 3 lines. The clypeus white and having three 

 minute fuscous dots placed in a triangle, the anterior dot some- 

 times nearly obsolete, densely covered with long white pubes- 

 cence : along the margins of the eyes and at the insertion of the 

 antennae a little mixture of fuscous pubescence. Thorax shining, 

 and having a thin griseous pubescence, mixed with fuscous 

 hairs at the margin of the scutellum ; wings subhyaline, irides- 

 cent, the nervures testaceous ; the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen 

 lanceolate, shining and delicately punctured, the margins of 

 the intermediate segments depressed, smooth and shining, 

 sometimes having a loose fringe of pale pubescence; the extreme 

 apex ferruginous. B.M. 



In this species the first recurrent nervure is received in the 

 middle of the second submarginal cell. 



This species does not occur near London ; it has once or twice 

 been taken at Weybridge. Mr. J. Hardy took both sexes from 

 the nest ; he finds it abundantly in little hillocks, at the sides 

 of pathways, in Penmanshiel Wood, Berwickshire. It has also 

 been received from Ireland. 



