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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN, 



' British Entomology.' It is strange that no second specimen 

 shouldhave been met with, as these insects are usually distri- 

 buted in different locahties, although some are much less abun- 

 dant than others. A species very closely resembling it is de- 

 scribed in the ' Catalogue of Andrenidfe/ published by the 

 Trustees of the British Museum ; it is from Albania, and varies 

 much in its colouring, whence its name, A. variabilis. 



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65. Andreiia Collins onana. 



A. atra, cinereo-subpubescens ; thorace pallide villoso ; abdo- 

 mine utrinque strigis tribus albis ; scopa pallide argenteo- 

 nitida, supra subfusca. 



Melitta Collinsonana, Kirb^, Hon. Ap. Angl ii. 153. 93 ^J. 

 Melitta proxirna, Kirhy, Mon. Ap. Angl ii. 146. 95 ? . 

 Melitta digitalis, Kirhy, Mon. Ap, AngL ii. 159. 99 ? van 

 Andrena proxima, Smith, Zool v. 1918. 50. 



Female. Length 4^ lines.— Black; the face below the antenna 

 densely clothed with short cinereous pubescence ; on the vertex 

 and disk of the thorax it is somewhat ochraceous ; the antennae 

 half the length of the thorax; the thorax coarsely punctured 

 on the disk; the sides of the metathorax thickly fringed with 

 pale pubescence ; the wings subhyaline, having a fulvous tinge 

 towards their apex, the nervures ferruginous ; the floccus white ; 

 the legs have a silvery pubescence, the scopa of a silvery bright- 

 ness, tinged with yellow above ; the basal joint of the posterior 

 tarsi sometimes fuscous towards the apex within ; the apical 

 joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen subovate, shining and 

 convex ; the a])ical margins of the intermediate segments have 

 a lateral white fringe, the apical fimbria is bright golden-yellow, 

 slightly fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 3^ lines, — The face has a cinereous pubescence, 

 the head wider than the thorax, the antenna nearly as long; 

 the pubescence on the thorax and legs cinereous, faintly tinged 

 with ochraceous on the disk of the former, the wings as in the 

 other sex; the basal joint of the tarsi has a golden pubescence 

 Within, their apical joints pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate- 

 lanceolate, shining, and fringed as in the female; at the apex 

 some bright glittering yellow pubescence; beneath, the three 

 apical segments are fringed with bright golden-yellow pubes- 



cence. 



B.M. 



This species is not found in the London district ; it occurs at 

 Weybridgc, at Bristol, and in Hampshire. An examination of a 



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