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and having a scattered pale fulvous pubescence, the margins of 

 the segments rufo-testaceous. B.M. 



I feel pretty sure that I am correct in assigning the female 

 described to A, spinigerai they were found at the same time 

 and in the same locality. The female closely resembles A, 

 Trimmerana, but the different colour of their scopse distin- 

 guishes them at once. Mr. Kirby describes his insect as a fe- 

 male : this is an oversight. The species is very local, and appa- 

 rently not very numerous; it occurs however in the neighbour- 

 hood of Highgate, and has also been captured in Eppmg and 

 Ilainault Forests, and in the New Forest, Hampshire, 



28. Andrena picicornis. 



A. nigra, grisescenti-subvillosa j capite atro; antennis piceis; 

 abdomine fusco. 



Melitta picicornis, Kirhy, Mon. Ap. Angl ii. 123. 62. 

 Andrena picicornis, Smith, Zool. v. 1745. 33: 



Female. Length 5i-6 lines.— Black ; the face clothed with black 

 pubescence, that on the margin of the clypeus is obscure ful- 

 vous ; the flagellum rufo-piceous. Thorax thinly clothed with 

 obscure fulvo-ochraceous pubescence, paler on the metathorax 

 and on the sides ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures pale 

 ferruginous; the legs rufo-testaceous, having a pale fulvous 

 pubescence beneath, the floccus of the same colour ; the scopa 

 fulvous; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, their pubes- 

 cence beneath ferruginous. Abdomen ovate, fuscous, shining, 

 and having a scattered pale fulvous pubescence, the mar<^ins of 

 the segments rufo-testaceous; the apical fimbria fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines.— Very closely resembling the female, 

 but more elongate, the face clothed with ferruginous pubes- 

 cence ; the antennae shorter than the thorax, the joints of the 

 flagellum subarcuate ; the legs rufo-piceous, the posterior tibije 

 and the tarsi rufo-fulvous, their pubescence fulvous. Abdomen 

 elongate-ovate, shining, the margins of the segments obscurely 

 ruto-testaceous, those of the three basal segments have a spa- 

 ring pale fringe, on the fourth and fifth it is longer and more 

 dense the pubescence on the two apical segments fuscous, 

 mixed with a few fulvous hairs at the apex. 



This appears to be a very local species. Mr. Walcott cap- 

 tured it near Brighton ; all the examples which I have seen 



