88 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



rax : the disk thinly clothed with rufo-fulvous pubescence, on 

 the inetathorax and sides it is paler ; the wings subhyaline, 

 their apical margins clouded, the tegulse rufo-testaceous ; the 

 pubescence on the legs fulvous^ the scopa bright fulvous, the 

 floccus pale fulvous ; the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen shining, 

 oblong- ovate^ closely and delicately punctured, the apical mar- 

 gins of the segments obscurely rufo-testaceous ; the second, 

 third and fourth segments having a narrow pale fulvous fringe, 

 more or less obliterated in the middle ; the fifth and apical seg- 

 ments clothed with bright fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — The pubescence on the clypeus white, 

 above which it is pale fulvous, the cheeks have a long beard 

 and the mandibles a fringe of very pale pubescence, the femora 

 have a fringe of the same colour ; on the tibiie and tarsi it is 

 pale fulvous, the apical joints of the latter being pale ferrugi- 

 nous ; on the disk of the thorax the pubescence is fulvo-ochra- 

 ceous, the wings as in the female. Abdomen oblong-ovate, 

 very glossy, its pubescence as in the female ; the margins of 

 the segments depressed and narrowly rufo-testaceous. 



This beautiful species w^as discovered in the chalk pits at North- 

 fleet some years ago, in the month of July, where it has since 

 been met with, but not in any other locality ; it appears to be a 

 rare insect. 



47. Andrena Mvago. 



^. nigra, fulvo-villosa ; thorace pube rufa; abdoniine puuctu- 

 lato, nitido ; pedibus posticis, anoque, fulvis. 



Apis fulvago, Christ. Hym, p. 189. t. IG. f . 7 9 . 

 MeUtta fulvago, Kirhy, Mon. Ap, AngL ii. 93. 44. 

 Andrena fulvago, St. Farg, Hym, ii. 243, 11. 



Smith, ZooL v. 1732. 9 <? ? . 



Nyland, Ap. Boreal, p, 99 ; Revis, Ap, Boreal, p. 255. 19. 



Female. Length A^ lines. — Black; the face thinly clothed with 

 short fulvous pubescence, the clypeus strongly punctured ; the 

 flagellum fulvo-testaceous beneath. Thorax : the disk shining, 

 strongly punctured, thinly covered with obscure rufous pubes- 

 cence; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, tegute 

 rufo-pieeous ; the legs rufo-piceous, the tarsi and posterior 

 tibise rufo-fulvous ; the floccus pale fulvous, the scopa fulvous. 

 Abdomen subovate, shining, and finely punctured ; the apical 

 margins of the segments depressed and obscurely rufo-piccous? 



