BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. ^^ 



margins of the segments obscurely testaceous ; the apical 

 fimbria feri'uginous. B.M. 



Male, Length 3^ lines. — Black; the head subquadrate, the 

 margin of the vertex deeply emarginate ; the mandibles at their 

 base, beneath, having a large angular tooth ; the face and cheeks 

 thinly clothed vv^ith long cinereous pubescence ; the joints of 

 the antennae subarcuate. The thorax and legs thinly covered 

 with long cinereous pubescence; the v^^ings hyaline, their ner- 

 vures pale rufo-testaceous ; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo- 

 testaceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, shining, the apical marghis 

 of the segments obscurely rufo-piceous. B.M, 



This is a rare species and extremely local ; it has been once 

 or twice met with at Weybridge. A, Smithella resembles A. 

 Lapponicay but if tiie abdomen be viewed sideways, the yellow 

 pubescence will be seen to form suberect bands, the base of the 

 segments being naked. Mr. Grant captured both sexes at Wim- 

 bledon Common, in April 1854. 



31, Andrena Lapponica. 



-^.nigra, fulvescentl-subpilosa; thorace abdominisque basi ful- 

 vescentibus. 



Andrena Lapponica, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 460. 4. 

 Andrena apieata, Smith, Zool. v, 1748, 38. 



Female. Length 5-5^ lines. — Black ; the pubescence on the 

 clypeus obscure fulvous, at the sides and on the vertex it is 

 black; the antennae nigro-piceous beneath. Thorax; the pu- 

 bescence on the disk fulvo-ferruginous, at the sides and on the 

 metathorax pale fulvous ; the tegulse fulvo-piceous, the wings 

 hyaline, slightly clouded on their apical margins, the nervures 

 ferruginous ; the pubescence on the legs beneath, pale fulvous, 

 above, slightly fuscous ; the floccus dense and pale fulvous ; 

 the tarsi beneath ferruginous; the scopa bright fulvous be- 

 neath. Abdomen ovate and densely pubescent towards the 

 base ; the pubescence fulvous ; towards, and at the apex it is 

 black. B.M. 



■ b 



Male. Length 3i-4| lines. — The pubescence on the clypeus 

 pale fulvous, at the sides and above it is dark fuscous, or black; 

 at the sides of the head it is black, but pale on the cheeks be- 

 neath; the mandibles forcipate, and armed at their base with a 

 short acute tooth, tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the pu- 

 bescence on the thorax pale fulvous, somewhat obscure on the 



