134 BEES OF GUEAT BRITAIN. 



Nomada Fabriciana, Fahr. Ent. St/st. ii. 348. 10. 



Spin. Ins, Lig. i, 152. 4. 



Schdff. Germ. Zeits, i. 277. 6. 



Smith, ZooL ii. 598. 11 ^J $ . 



Nyland. Ap, BoreaL p. 183. 14. 

 Apis Fabriciella, Kirbij, Hon. Ap. Angl ii. 213. 29 ? . t. 16. f. 3. 

 Apis notata, Kirhy, Mon, Ap. Angl. ii. 14. 30 $ . 

 Nomada quadrinotata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 494. 26. 



Female. Length 3^-5 lines. — Head and thorax black; the an- 

 tennae rufous, four or five joints towards the apex, black ; the 

 apical one red; the scape and one or two of the basal joints ol 

 the flagellum black above ; the apex of the mandibles ferrugi- 

 nous ; the face and cheeks have a silvery pubescence. Thorax : 

 the tegulse, tibise in front, the femora at their apex in front, 

 and the apical joints of the tarsi, ferruginous. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, the base black, the second segment has on each side an 

 ovate macula, and the third a minute one, yellow ; the margins 

 of the apical segments, piceous. B.M. 



Var. /3. The third segment immaculate. 



Var, y. The spot on the second segment minute, that on the 

 third obsolete. 



Male. Length 3|-4 lines. — Head and thorax black, having a 

 thinly scattered hoary pubescence ; the face clothed with silvery 

 pubescence ; the antennai obscurely rufo-piceous beneath ; the 

 anterior and intermediate femora at their apex in front, their 

 tibiae in front, and the tarsi, ferruginous ; the basal joints of the 

 latter black or fuscous above. Abdomen ferruginous, the base 

 black ; the second and third segments have on each side a round 

 yellow macula, the latter pair smallest. B.M, 



This species appears to be generally distributed over the 

 country, but it seldom occurs in large numbers ; it is frequently 

 met with on Hampstead Heath about the end of April and during 

 May; it has also been taken in Yorkshire, in the month of July. 



17. Nomada Germanica. 



2V. atra; antennis, pedibus abdomineque ferrugineis, macuhs 

 atris. 



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Nomada Germanica, Panz. Faun. Germ. 72. 17 ? . 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 394. 18. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 477. 13. 

 Apis ferruginata, Kirby^ Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 218. 34. t. 16, f. 4 ^ 



(nee Linn.). 



