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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



fulvous pubescence, the disk nearly naked, having merely a few 

 scattered hairs ; the tegulaj rufo-piceous, wings fulvo-hvaline 

 faintly clouded at their extreme apical margins, the nei-vures 

 pale ferruginous; the legs dark rufo-piceous, the posterior 

 tibise and all the tarsi pale ferruginous and clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence, the floccus pale fulvous. Abdomen ovate, the 

 apical margins of the segments obscurely rufo-piceous; the i 

 apical fimbria fusco-ferruginous. jj lyj ' 



Male. Length 4-4i lines.— Black ; head subquadrate, much ' 

 larger than the thorax, sometimes more than twice the size • 

 the mandibles forcipate and armed at their base with an acute 

 spme J the antennae as long as the thorax ; the wings subhya- 

 Ime, and faintly clouded at their apical margins, the nervures 

 pale rufo-testaceous ; the thorax has a little pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence at the sides ; the posterior tibiae, the anterior and inter- 

 mediate pairs at their apex, and the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. 

 Abdomen lanceolate, the apical margin of the first, the basal 

 and apical margins of the second, and the basal margin of the 

 third segments, broadly rufo-testaceous ; the extreme apex has 

 a fulvous pubescence. B M 



Var. a The abdomen only having the apical margin of the first 

 and the basal and apical of the second segments rufo-testaceous. 



The first specimens of this fine species were taken by Mr. 

 Desvignes at Windsor, who met with examples of both sexes, 

 but at that time was not aware that they belonged to the same 

 species ; since that time Mr. Walcott has discovered a new loca- 

 lity for It near Bristol, capturing both sexes and establishing 

 their identity ; the British Museum is indebted to that gentle- 

 man for a series of fine varieties. 



Div. U.~The thorax densely pubescent, the abdomen naked, 

 smooth and shining j without fascice of pale pubescence. 



9. Andrena cineraria. 



A. atra, albido-pubescens ; thorace hirsuto fascia atra; abdomine 

 atro-caerulescenti nitido. 



Apis cineraria, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 420. 1688 ; SmL Nat. I 953. 5, 

 ^ Cad. Mus. Linn. Soc. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 329. 67. 

 Apis atra, Christ. Hym, p. 174. t. 14. f. 1. 



Panz. Faun. Germ, 56. 14. 

 Apis cinerea, Fourc. Ent. Par, ii. 144. 8. 

 MeUtta cineraria, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl ii. 98. 47. 



