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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 83 



Female, Length 5-6 lines. — Black ; the face covered with gri- 

 seous pubescence^ that on the vertex fulvous, a line of silvery 

 pile on each side of the face in the depressions close to the mar- 

 gins of the eyesj the clypeus strongly punctured, having a 

 smooth line down the centre, the anterior margin deeply 

 eraarginate, and produced on each side into a sharp angle. 

 Thorax thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, most dense 

 on the scutcllum ; at the sides of the metathorax it is paler ; 

 wings subhyaline, their apical margins clouded ; legs dark fus- 

 cous, the floccus white ; the scopa obscure fulvous above, be- 

 neath silvery ; the legs have a scattered pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence, that on the tarsi beneath ferruginous, their apical joints 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen : at the base, thinly clothed with 

 cinereous pubescence, on the intermediate portion it is fuscous 

 but very sparing, a few scattered cinereous hairs at the sides ; 

 on the fifth and apical segments it is fuscous, the margins of the 

 segments obscure testaceous. B.M. 



This very distinct species is not found in the London district ; 

 it appears to be plentiful in Scotland, and has been received 

 from Bristol, but it is not quite certain that the specimens were 

 captured there ; it is more probably quite a northern species, as it 

 is found in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. 



Div. V. — Abdomen suhpubescent : males only known, 



39. Andrena picipes. 



-4. nigra, palHdo-villosa; thorace fulvescenti ; abdomine fusco; 

 pedibus rufo-piceis. 



Melitta picipes, Kirly, Mon. Jp, AngL ii. 127. 66. 

 Andrena picipes, Smith, Zool, v. 1746. 34. 



Male, Length 4 lines. — Black ; the head larger than the thorax, 

 the face covered with a white pubescence ; the mandibles forci- 

 pate. Thorax above clothed with fulvous pubescence, the legs 

 rufo-piceous, their pubescence pale. Abdomen fuscous, shining 

 and pilose. - B.M. 



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Of this species there is no specimen in the Kirbyan collection, 

 but some suspicion arises that it may be a male of J. helvola. 



