BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 5P 



Andrena cineraria, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 362. 1. 

 Fabr. Syst. Piez. 323. 5. 

 Spin, Ins. Lig. fasc. i, p. 117.51. 

 St. Farg. Hym. ii, 238. 6. 

 Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 211. 6. 

 \ Smith, Zool v. 1735. 14. 



Lucasj Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 169. 58. 



Female. Length 5-7 lines. — Black; the face clothed with 

 white pubescence ; that on the thorax is white, having a black 

 band between the wings ; the wings subhyahne, their apical 

 margins having a dark fuscous cloud ; the pubescence of the 

 legs black, except the fringe on the anterior femora, which is 

 white ; abdomen blue-black, smooth and shining ; the apical 

 fimbria fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 5-6 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax clothed 

 with white pubescence; the wings hyaline, their apical mar- 

 gins faintly clouded; the femora fringed with wliite pubescence. 

 Abdomen blue-black, lanceolate, and having the two basal seg- 

 ments clothed with white pubescence, most densely so at the 

 sides. B.M. 



This elegant insect is found in all parts of the United Kingdom ; 

 it is an early species, usually appearing in April, but I once met 

 with the male in 1842 on the 22nd of March in the Battersea 

 Fields : it is fond of burrowing in trodden pathways, and is veri^ 

 abundant in the walks in Hyde Park. In Yorkshire it is not 

 uncommon in the month of Julv. 



10. Andrena pilipes. 



A. aterrima glabra ; abdomine nitido ; tibiarum posticarum 

 scopa subtus alba, supra fusca. 



Andrena pilipes, Fahr. Spec. Ins. i. 474, 12 ? ; Mant. Ins. I 298.13 • 

 Ent Syst. ii. 312. 21 ; Syst. Piez. 322. 2. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 98. 898. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. fasc. iii. p. 191. 17. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 236. 3. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal p. 210. 4. 

 Apis atra, SchranJc, Ins. Aust. p. 403. 814 ? 

 Apis carbonaria, Christ. Hym. p. 201. t. 17. f. 13. 

 Andrena aterrima, Panz. Faun. Germ. 64. 19. 



Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 363 .3, 

 Melitta pilipes, Kirhy, Mon. Ap. Angl ii. 96. 46 ? . 

 Mehtta pratensis, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 100. 48 ^ . 

 Andrena pratensis, Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 211. 5 J ? . 

 . Andrena nitida, Lucas, Ejcplo. Sc. Alger, iii. 181. 86 <? ^ 

 Andrena atra, Smithy Zool. v. 1734. 13. 



