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7. Andrena cingulata. 



A. nigra, cinereo-subpubescens ; abdomiiie glabriusculo, cingulo 

 ferrugineo utrinque puncto nigro. 



Nomada cingulata, Fahr. Sp. Ins, i. p. 488. 8 $ ; Mant, Ins, i. 307. 

 10; Ent. Syst. ii. 349. 15 ; Syst. Piez. p. 394. 17. 



Rossi, Mant. p. 326. 

 Apis albilabris, Panz, Faun, Germ. 56. 23 $ . 

 Apis spliegoides, Panz, Faun, Germ. 56. 24 $ . 

 Andrena sphegoides, Spin. Ins. Lig, fasc. i. p. 121. 6. 

 Melitta cingulata, Kirby, Mon, Ap, AnyL ii, 88. 41. 

 Andrena cingulata, >S'/. Farg. Hym, ii. 257. 29. 



Nyland, Ap, Boreal, p. 210. 3 ; Revis.Ap. Boreal, p. 251. 5. 



Smith, Zool. v. 1668. 5. 



Female. Length 4i lines. — Black and shining, the pubescence 

 cinereous; a line of white pile on each side of the face along 

 the inner margin of the eyes; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath. 

 Thorax : the tegulae rufo-piceous, the wings subliyaline, faintly 

 ^clouded at their apical margins, the nervures nigro-piceous ; the 

 floccus and scopa beneath white, the latter fulvous above. Ab- 

 domen ovate, delicately punctured, the second and third seg- 

 ments and the apical margin of the first red ; the second has 

 on each side a minute fuscous dot, the apical fimbria fulvous. 



B.M. 



Male, — This sex only differs from the female in having the cly- 

 peus white, with two black dots, and the abdomen more convex 



above. 



B.M. 



This pretty little species is not uncommon, but rather local ; 

 during June and July it has occurred for many years at the side 

 of Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, frequenting the flowers of the 

 Germander Speedwell. 



8. Andrena ferox. 



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^. nigra, pallide fulvo-villosa; abdomine nitido; tibiis plantis- 

 que posticis fulvis. 



Andrena ferox, Smithy Zool. v. 1670. 8 <J . 



Andrena distincta, Smith, Zool. v. 1744. 30 ? (nee Lucas, Ewplo, 

 Sc. Alger.), 



Female. Length 6 lines.— Black : the face thinly clothed with 

 fulvous pubescence, the antenna? nearly as long as the thorax : 

 the clypeus coarsely punctured, and having in the centre a lon- 

 gitudinal shining space. Thorax : the sides have a dense pale 



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