126 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Apis rufiventris, Kirby, Mon, Ap. AngL ii. 187. 9 ? . 

 Nomada rufiventris, Smith, ZooL ii. 590. 2 (J $ 

 Nomada Marshamella, Nyland, Ap, Boreal, p. 176. 3. 



Female. Length 4-51 lines. — Head and thorax black/ the 

 clypeus and a spot above it, the orbits of the eyes, the labrum, 

 mandibles and antennae, ferruginous, the scape black above. 

 Thorax : the tubercles and tvs^o spots on the scutellum yellow ; 

 a stripe down the breast in front and the legs ferruginous; the 

 coxae more or less fuscous, and the posterior femora and tibise 

 having a black stain beneath ; the wings subhyaline, their 

 apical margins having a fuscous cloud, the tegulae reddish- 

 yellow. Abdomen ferruginous, the base black ; the apical 

 margins of the first and three following segments rufo-fuscous ; 

 the apical margins bright yellow, the fifth entirely yellow; be- 

 neath ferruginous, the apical margins of the segments black. 



B.M. 



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Male. Length 4-5 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the scape of 

 the antennae in front, the face below their insertion, the orbits 

 of the eyes, interrupted at their vertex, yellow; the labrum 

 and mandibles yellow ; the flagellum ferruginous, three or four 

 of the basal segments black above. Thorax : the tubercles, 

 tegulae, two minute dots on the scutellum, yellow ; the anterior 

 legs yellow, the intermediate and posterior pairs ferruginous, 

 their coxae and femora black beneath, the knees and the inter- 

 mediate tibiae and tarsi yellow, the latter stained with fer- 

 ruginous. Abdomen as in the other sex, the yellow bands being 

 brighter and rather broader. The wings are nearly hyaline, 

 their apical margins faintly clouded, the nervures pale testa- 

 ceous. B.M. 



This beautiful species is very local, but appears to be widely 

 distributed ; it is not uncommon at Hampstead and has been 

 received from Scotland ; it is parasitic upon Andrena labialis. 



8. Nomada varia. 



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N. atra ; scutello sulphureo ; abdomine flavo, basi ferrugineo, 

 fasciis quatuor nigris. Mas, scutello, tibiis extus, abdomi- 

 nisque fasciis posticis flavis, segmento basali rufo. 



Nomada fucata, Panz. Faun, Germ. 55. 19 $ . 

 Fabr. SysL Piez. p. 390. 3. 

 Spin. Ins. Lig. fasc. i. p. 151, 1. 

 Schdff. Germ. Zeits. i. 284. 22. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 593. 5c??. 



