136 BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN, 



slightly so at the sides i the sides have a short silvery pubes- 

 cenee, as well as the margins of the segments beneath. 



This species most closely resembles N. Germanica, but its 

 antennae are shorter, and the basal joints of the flagellum are 

 not swollen ; the second submarginal cell is narrower and of a 

 different form. 



Two specimens of this species w^ere taken at Arundel, in Sus- 

 sex, by Mr. S. Stevens ; no other locality is known, nor have any 

 other examples been received. 



19. Nomada Solidaginis. 



N. atra : antennis basi ferrugineis ; scutello, abdominisqne ma- 

 culis fasciisque flavis; segmento primo immaculato. 



Nomada Solidaginis, Panz. Faun. Germ, 72. 18. • 



Spin, Ins. Lig. fasc. i. 152. 3. 



Schdff. Germ, Zeits. i. 284. 23. 



St, Fary, Hym. ii. 472. 8. 



Smithy Zool, ii. 595. 8. 



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

 Apis solidaginis, Kirhy, Mon. Ap. AngL ii. 204. 22. 

 Apis picta, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 206. 23 $ (var.). 

 • Apis rufo-picta, Kirby^ Mon, Ap, AngL ii. 207. 24 (van). 



Female, Length 3}-4 lines. — Head and thorax black; the cly- 

 peus, and a narrow line on each side touching the eyes, the 

 labrum and mandibles, yellow, the tips of the latter ferruginous; 

 the scape and the base of the flagellum ferruginous in front. 

 Thorax : the collar, tubercles, a lunate patch on the breast, the 

 tegulse and scutellum, yellow ; the legs ferruginous, the poste- 

 rior femora having a dark stain at their base within; the wings 

 pale fulvo-hyaline, faintly clouded at their apical margins. Ab- 

 domen : the second and third segments have a large yellow 

 macula acute within, the fourth has a fascia, and the fifth seg- 

 ment is entirely of the same colour ; the base of the latter some- 

 times black ; the intermediate segments beneath have trans- 

 verse yellow fascige, sometimes inten'upted. B.M. 



A^ar. /3. Abdomen rufous, similarly maculated to the former 

 {A, rufo-picta^ Kirby). 



Var. y. Abdomen rufous, the fascia on the fourth segment widely 



interrupted (^.^ic^a, Kirby). 



Male, Length 3i-4 lines. — Black; the clypeus, sides of the 

 face, the labrum, mandibles, and the scape in front yellow ; the 

 face has a silvery-white pubescence ; the flagellum rufo-testa- 



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