^ 



BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 79 



coarsely punctured ; the disk of the thorax clothed with bright 

 fulvous pubescence, on the metathorax and sides it is paler ; 

 the wings hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins, the 

 nervures ferruginous ; the femora fringed with pale pubes- 

 cence, the floccus white, the scopa fuscous ; the calcaria pale 

 testaceous, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdo- 

 men oblong-ovate, with a little fulvous pubescence at the base; 

 ■ the three following segments have a broad fascia of pale fulvous 

 pubescence; the pubescence on the two apical segments black. 



B.M, 



Male, Length 4 lines. — Black ; the face clothed with pale pu- 

 bescence, on the clypeus anteriorly it is white, the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus emarginate, and produced at the lateral 

 angles into a sharp tooth ; the labrum bidentate ; the mandi- 

 bles forcipate, their tips ferruginous; the antennae rather 

 shoii;er than the thorax, the latter clothed with a thin fulvous 

 pubescence ; beneath it is white ; the wings as in the female ; 

 the tarsi ferruginous beneath, their apical joints rufo-testaceous. 

 Abdomen ovate-lanceolate, the margins thinly fringed with pale 

 pubescence, the apex fulvous. 



This species was discovered at the land-slip near Luccomb 

 Chine in the Isle of Wight, in July 1851 : shortly afterwards 

 Mr. Baly took both sexes at Folkestone in Kent. 



34, Andrena piiT)escens. 



-4. nigra, palhdo-subvillosa ; thorace fulvo; abdominis segmentis 

 margine albidis ; antennis subtus, plantisque, rufis. 



Melitta rufitarsis, Kirby, Mon. Ap. AngL ii. 136. 74 (var. $ ). 

 Mehtta fuscipes, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 136. 75 ? . 

 MeUtta pubescens, Kirby, Mon. Ap. AngL ii. 141. 80 c? . 

 Andrena fuscipes, Smith, ZooL v. 1751. 43^ $ . 

 Andrena rufitarsis, Smith, ZooL v. 1750. 42. 



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

 vous pubescence, a line of pale downy pile along the inner margins 

 touching the eyes; the flagellum more or less fulvous beneath. 

 Thorax : the disk clothed with fulvous pubescence, on the sides 

 of the metathorax it is much paler; the tegulse rufo-testaceous, 

 the wings subhyaline, slightly clouded at their apical margins, 

 the nervures rufo-piceous ; the legs rufo-testaceous, having a 

 fuscous pilosity above ; the floccus yellowish-white ; the scopa 

 pale fulvous beneath ; the apical joints of the tarsi testaceous. 

 Abdomen subovate, the basal segment covered with pale fulvous 



