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slightly so at the sides ; the sides have a short silvery pubes- 

 cence, as well as the margins of the segments beneath. 



This species most closely resembles N. Germanica, but its 

 antennae are shorter, and the basal joints of the flagellum are 

 not swollen ; the second submarginal cell is narrower and of a 

 different form. 



Two specimens of this species were taken at Arundel, in Sus- 

 sex, by Mr. S. Stevens ; no other locality is known, nor have any 

 other examples been received. 



19. Nomada Solidaginis. 



N. atra : antennis basi ferrugineis ; scutello, abdominisque ma- 

 culis fasciisque flavis ; segmento primo immaculato. 



Nomada Solidaginis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 72. 18. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. fasc. i. 152. 3. 



Schdff. Germ. Zeits. i. 284. 23. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 472. 8. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 595. 8. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 176. 3. 

 Apis Solidaginis, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 204. 22. 

 Apis picta, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 206. 23 $ (var.). 

 Apis rufo-picta, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 207. 24 (var.). 



Female. Length 3*-4 lines. Head and thorax black ; the cly- 

 peus, and a narrow line on each side touching the eyes, the 

 labrum and mandibles, yellow, the tips of the latter ferruginous; 

 the scape and the base of the flagellum ferruginous in front. 

 Thorax : the collar, tubercles, a lunate patch on the breast, the 

 tegulae and scutellum, yellow ; the legs ferruginous, the poste- 

 rior femora having a dark stain at their base within ; the wings 

 pale fulvo-hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins. Ab- 

 domen : the second and third segments have a large yellow 

 macula acute within, the fourth has a fascia, and the fifth seg- 

 ment is entirely of the same colour ; the base of the latter some- 

 times black ; the intermediate segments beneath have trans- 

 verse yellow fasciae, sometimes interrupted. B.M. 



Var. j3. Abdomen rufous, similarly maculated to the former 

 (A. rufo-picta, Kirby). 



Var. y. Abdomen rufous, the fascia on the fourth segment widely 

 interrupted (A. picta, Kirby). 



Male. Length 3i-4 lines. Black; the clypeus, sides of the 

 face, the labrum, mandibles, and the scape in front yellow ; the 

 face has a silvery-white pubescence ; the flagellum rufo-testa- 



