134 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Nomada Fabriciana, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 348. 10. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 152. 4. 



Schtiff. Germ. Zeits. i. 277. 6. 



Smith, Zool.il 598. 11<? ?. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 183. 14. 



Apis Fabriciella, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl ii. 213. 29 ?. t. 16. f. 3. 

 Apis notata, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 14. 30 $ . 

 Nomada quadrinotata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 494. 26. 



Female. Length 3^-5 lines. Head and thorax black ; the an- 

 tennae rufous, four or five joints towards the apex, black ; the 

 apical one red ; the scape and one or two of the basal joints ol 

 the flagellum black above ; the apex of the mandibles ferrugi- 

 nous ; the face and cheeks have a silvery pubescence. Thorax : 

 the tegulae, tibiae in front, the femora at their apex in front, 

 and the apical joints of the tarsi, ferruginous. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, the base black, the second segment has on each side an 

 ovate macula, and the third a minute one, yellow ; the margins 

 of the apical segments, piceous. B.M. 



Var. j3. The third segment immaculate. 



Var. y. The spot on the second segment minute, that on the 

 third obsolete. 



Male. Length 3|-4 lines. Head and thorax black, having a 

 thinly scattered hoary pubescence ; the face clothed with silvery 

 pubescence ; the antennae obscurely rufo-piceous beneath ; the 

 anterior and intermediate femora at their apex in front, their 

 tibiae in front, and the tarsi, ferruginous ; the basal joints of the 

 latter black or fuscous above. Abdomen ferruginous, the base 

 black ; the second and third segments have on each side a round 

 yellow macula, the latter pair smallest. B.M, 



This species appears to be generally distributed over the 

 country, but it seldom occurs in large numbers ; it is frequently 

 met with on Hampstead Heath about the end of April and during 

 May; it has also been taken in Yorkshire, in the month of July. 



17. Nomada Germanica. 



2V. atra; antennis, pedibus abdomineque ferrugineis, maculis 

 atris. 



Nomada Germanica, Panz. Faun. Germ. 72. 17 ?. 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 394. 18. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 477. 13. 



Apis ferruginata, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 218. 34. t. 16. f. 4 <J 

 (nee Linn.}. 



