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the extreme apex testaceous, the joints subarcuate. Thorax : 

 the pubescence griseous, that on the disk has a shght fulvous 

 tino-e ; the leo-s covered mth pale glittering pubescence, that 

 on "the tarsi beneath golden-yellow ; the apical joints of the an- 

 terior and intermediate tarsi, the posterior pair, and the extreme 

 apex of the tibiae, rufo-testaceous ; the wings as in the female. 

 Abdomen ovate-lanceolate, punctured and fringed as in the 

 female. 13. M. 



This bee is not met with in the London district ; it is taken 

 near Farnham in Surrey, and in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Dale 

 records that it is occasionally plentiful at Glanvilles Wootton ; 

 it must be widely distributed, having frequently been received 

 from distant localities. This species appears to be always at- 

 tacked by some species of Stylops : out of upwards of thirty 

 specimens examined, not one of either sex is free ; some indi- 

 viduals having one, others two, and a few even three specimens 

 of Stylops projecting from the segments of the abdomen. 



64. Andrena Kirbyi. 



A. nigra, paUide villosa ; thorace nitido; abdominis segmentis 

 pallido-marginatis. 



Andrena Kirbyi, Curtis, Brit. Ent. iii. 129. t. 129. 

 Smith, Zool v. 1922. 56. 



Female, Length 6 lines. — Black ; the head very closely punc- 

 tured, rendering it opake, the pubescence ochraceous; the 

 clypeus strongly punctured ; the flagellum beneath, except the 

 two basal joints, fulvous. Thorax: the disk shining, strongly 

 but not very closely punctured, thinly covered with short 

 ochraceous pubescence 5 the wings fulvo-hyahne, the nervures 

 and tegulse pale testaceous; the legs dark rufo-piceous, the 

 floccus pale ochraceous, and having a silvery brightness be- 

 neath; the apical joints of the tarsi pale ferruginous. Abdomen 

 subcordate, slightly depressed, very finely and closely punc- 

 tured ; the base pubescent, the apical margin of the first and 

 three following segments having a fascia of short ochraceous 

 pubescence, the apical fimbria rufo-fuscous : beneath strongly 

 punctured, the margins of the segments rufo-testaceous, the 

 three apical ones ciliated with long pale hairs. B.M. 



The only British specimen of this insect known is in the Bri- 

 tish Museum ; it was formerly in the cabinet of the late Mr. 

 Stephens ; there is an excellent figure of it in Mr. Curtis's 



