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clouded at their apical margins ; legs rufo-piceous, the posterior 

 tibiae and all the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous, clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence. Abdomen ovate, delicately punctured ; apical mar- 

 gins of the segments testaceous, and having a fascia of pale ful- 

 vous pubescence, the first and second usually interrupted, on the 

 fifth and sixth segments it is bright fulvous. 

 Hab. Italy. 



87. ANDRENA CAPITALIS, n. s. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Head as wide as the thorax, densely 

 covered with long erect black hair -, the thorax above covered 

 with black hair, that on the sides of the thorax is ochraceous ; 

 wings hyaline, the apical margins very slightly clouded, the ner- 

 vures and stigma ferruginous ; all the femora fringed with sooty 

 black pubescence, as well as the anterior tibiae and the interme- 

 diate pair at their base ; the legs otherwise covered with pale ful- 

 vous pubescence, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Ab - 

 domen ovate, the apex acute ; shining and clothed with black 

 pubescence, which is long at the base and apex ; the second, 

 third and fourth segments have a little white pubescence on their 

 apical margins laterally ; beneath, the margins have a thin fringe 

 of long black hairs. 

 Hab. Malta. 



88. ANDRENA SPECTABILIS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length / lines. Black, on each side of the face a 

 line of white pubescence, the clypeus coarsely punctured. 

 Thorax, the middle portion from the collar to the post-scutellum 

 shining and coarsely punctured, on each side of which it is much 

 more closely and finely so, giving the sides a subopaque appear- 

 ance ; on the metathorax at its base a triangular defined space, 

 coarsely rugose ; sides of the metathorax finely roughened with 

 confluent punctures and fringed with sooty-black pubescence; 

 wings dark fuscous having a purple reflection ; legs usually black, 

 or dark rufo-piceous, the claws ferruginous ; the pubescence of 

 the legs sooty-black, on the tarsi beneath it is fulvous ; the floe- 

 cus and scopa on the posterior tibiae in front cinereous or silvery 

 in certain lights. Abdomen shining, particularly at the base, 

 which is less closely punctured than the rest of the abdomen, 

 the apical margins of the segments broadly depressed, the de- 

 pressed portion being delicately, whilst the intervening space is 

 strongly, punctured ; on the apical margins of the second, third 

 and fourth segments laterally a narrow white marginal fringe, 

 the anal fimbria sooty-black. 

 Hab. Albania. 



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