112 HYMENOPTERA. 



128. ANDRENA EPHIPPIUM. 



Andrena ephippium, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 511. 56. 

 Hab. Egypt. 



129. ANDRENA RUTILA. 



Andrena rutila, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 510. 55. 

 Hab. Egypt. 



130. ANDRENA HILARIS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 6^ lines. Black, the face has on each side 

 a little pale fulvous pubescence, the clypeus shining and deeply 

 punctured, its anterior margin narrowly ferruginous, as well as 

 the mandibles in the middle, being black at their base and apex . 

 Thorax clothed with fulvous pubescence, palest and most dense 

 at the sides of the metathorax, the tegulse and nervures of the 

 wings rufo-testaceous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, their apical margins 

 clouded; legs rufo-testaceous, the apical joints of the tarsi palest, 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence. Abdomen ovate, delicately 

 punctured, the apical margins of the segments have laterally a 

 narrow fringe of pale pubescence, the anal fimbria fulvous. 

 Hab. Georgia. 



131. ANDRENA VICTNA, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black, the face clothed with ochra- 

 ceous pubescence, the vertex and cheeks with the same ; the 

 thorax entirely covered with pubescence similar to that on the 

 face, but of a rather brighter colour on the disk ; wings hyaline, 

 faintly clouded at their margins, tegulae and nervures rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; the legs entirely covered with dark fuscous or sooty -black 

 pubescence^ the floccus being of the same colour, on the anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi in front it is somewhat ochraceous, the apical 

 joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ovate, the base has a 

 few scattered ochraceous hairs, the anal fimbria sooty-black. 



Obs. This species closely resembles the A. nitida, only differ- 

 ing in the following particulars : it has no black hairs on the face, 

 the floccus and scopa are not pale, and the abdomen has no 

 patches of white pubescence at the sides : these differences hold 

 good in series of specimens. 



Hab. United States ; Nova Scotia. 



132. ANDRENA PLACIDA, n. s. B.M. 

 Female. Length 5 lines. Black, the face on each side has a 



