BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 19/ 



L Encera longiccmis. 



^. nigra, pallide fulvo-villosa; thorace abdomiuisque basi liir- 

 suto-fulvis. MaSy antenuis filiformibus longitiuliiie corporis. 



Apis longicornis, Linn, Faun, Succ, p. 419. no. 1684 ; S?/sL Nat. i. 

 1)53. 1 (J , ^ Cab. Mus, Linn. Soc, 



Scop. Ent. Cam. p. 298. 794. f. 794. 



Fabr. Si/sL Ent. p. 388. 58. 



Schdff. Icon. his. t. 44. f. 3. 



Fgutc. Ent. Par. ii. 446. 10. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrnse. ii. 922. 



Christ. Hym. p. 142. t. 11. f. 9. 



Kirby, Man. Ap. AvqL ii. 278. 59 ^J ^ . 



Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 27. f. 14. 

 Eucera longicornis, Scop. Ann. Illst. Nat. iv. 8. 1 (J. 



Fabr. Eat. Syst. ii. 343. 1. 

 , Latr. Hist. Nat. xiv. 43. 1. 



Bridle, Expcd, Sc. de Moree, \\L 334. 742. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 4C9. 1. 



Blawcti. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. p. 407. 

 ■ St. Farg. Hym. ii, 118. 3. 



Lucas, Eocplor. Sc. Alger, iii. 159. 34. 



Smitti, Zool. iv. 1449. I, 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 249. 1. 



Bar, Bull. Mosc. xxiii. 530. 1. t. 13. f. L 

 Apis tuberculata, Fabr. Ent. Syst, ii. 334. 84 $ . 

 Eucera tuberculata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 78. 19. 

 Eucera vulgaris, Spin. Lis. IJg. fasc. i. p. 149. 1. 

 Andrena strigosa, Panz. Faun. Germ. 64. 16 $ . 

 Ray, Hist. Ins. 243 $ . 

 Swamm. Bibl. Nat. t. 26. f. 6 c? . 

 Geoff. Ins. Pur. ii. 413. 10. 



Female. Length 6|-7 lines. — Black : the fiice and labrum 

 clothed with cinereous pubescence, somewhat fulvous on the 

 labrum anteriorly, the mandibles ferruginous at their apex. 

 Thorax above clothed with fulvous pubescence, on the sides 

 pale yellow, and beneath cinereous ; tegulai and nervures fer- 

 ruginous, the wings j)ale fulvo-hyaline'; the legs have a ful- 

 vous pubescence above, on the tarsi beneath it is ferruginous ; 

 the calcaria pale testaceous, the apical joints of the tarsi fer- 

 ruginous, tips of the claws black. Abdomen broad, subde- 

 pressed, at the base thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence j the second and third segments have laterally on their 

 apical margins a fascia of very short cinereous pubescence, on 

 the fourth segment an entire fascia, the two apical segments 

 covered with short fulvous pubescence; beneath, the apical 

 segments have a fulvous frinp^e. B.M 



