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thorax ; the face and sides of the metathorax have a fulvo-ochra- 

 ceous pubescence ; the antennas shorter than the thorax, the joints 

 subarcuate ; the wings hyaline, the nervures pale ferruginous, the 

 apical margins faintly clouded ; the tarsi and apex of the tibise pale 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen lanceolate, the apical margins of the 

 three basal segments red. 



This species varies in the male sex as in the female ; but the 

 coloured varieties are much less common. In general appearance it 

 much resembles A. rosce, but its strongly punctured thorax and 

 fulvous scopa distinguish it from that species. It is rare apparently 

 in the home counties, but has been taken on Shirley Common in 

 August, and also at Birch Wood, Kent. Mr. John B. Bridgman 

 found the species plentiful about the end of July and daring August, 

 frequenting the flowers of the bramble around Norwich; he also 

 took it at Fritton, in Suffolk. The male bears a close resemblance 

 to that of A. himaculata, but it is smaller, independent of other 

 differences. 



5. Andrena florea. 



A. atra, fulvo-cinereo pubescens, abdominis segmentorum margini- 

 bus rufo cingulatis. 



Andrena florea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 308 $ ; Syst. Piez. 324. 



St.- Far g, Hijm. ii. 259. 



Nyland. Notts, ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 251. 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. 54. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 236. 

 Melitta rosse, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 83, var. b & e, and the 



male described. 

 Andrena rubricata, Smith, Zool. v. 1666 <S $ . 



Female. Length 6| lines. — Black; the face clothed with yellowish 

 brown pubescence ; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath ; the pubes- 

 cence on the thorax pale fulvous, fuscous on the disk ; wings sub- 

 hyaline, their margins faintly clouded, the nervures pale ferruginous ; 

 the legs have a fuscous pubescence above, beneath it is pale fulvous ; 

 that on the basal joint of the tarsi beneath is dark fuscous, the 

 claws ferruginous. Abdomen ovate and shining, delicately punc- 

 tured, the apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous ; the first 

 and second are usually of the brightest colour ; the apical fimbria 

 fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 5-5| lines. — Black ; head wider than the thorax, 

 the pubescence fulvo-cinereous ; the tegulae rufo-piceous, the wings 

 fulvo- hyaline, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the legs dark rufo- 

 testaceous, their pubescence pale fulvous, the claws ferruginous. 

 Abdomen ovate-lanceolate ; the second segment, the apical margin 

 of the first and basal margin of the third segments red ; the apical 

 margins of the following segments obscurely rufo-testaceous ; the 

 apex fulvous. B.M. 



Var. a. A fuscous band across the middle of the second segment. 



