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Var. /3. The margins only of the first and second segments narrowly 

 red. 



Dr. Nylander has compared specimens of this species with the 

 type in the Museum at Kiel; the name given by Fabricius is there- 

 fore adopted. The species appears usually about the beginning of 

 June ; it frequents by preference the wild briony ; it has been 

 taken frequently near Highgate ; it is also found at Weybridge, and 

 near Blackwater, Hants, at Bideford and Ilfracombe, North Devon. 

 The male resembles that of A. rosce, but may be known from it 

 by having the joints of the antennae simple; in A. rosce they are 

 arcuate. 



6. Andrena cetii. 



A. nigra, cinereo subvillosa, thorace pallide rufescente ; abdomine 

 cingulo rufo, segmentis posticis flavo ciliatis. 



Andrena cetii, Smith, Zool. v. 1668 ; Bees Great Brit. 55. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 74. 

 Apis cetii, Schrank, Ins. Austr. 405. 

 Andrena marginata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 309 ; Syst. Piez. 826 var. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 72. 15. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 255. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sdllsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. 251. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 142. 

 Melitta schrankella, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 90. 

 Melitta affinis, Kirby, lib. cit. 92 var. 

 Andrena frontalis, Smith, Zool. vii. App. 59 ; Bees Great Brit. 85 c? . 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black; the face has a thin cinereous 

 pubescence, and a line of silvery pile along the inner margins of 

 the eyes ; the nagellum rufo-piceous towards the apex beneath. 

 Thorax thinly clothed with pale ochraceous pubescence ; the wings 

 subhyaline, slightly clouded at their apex, the nervures ferruginous ; 

 the legs have a short cinereous pubescence, their floccus and scopa 

 beneath are of the same colour, the latter fuscous above. Abdo- 

 men oblong-ovate, the basal segment black, except its apical margin, 

 which, as well as the rest of the abdomen, is red. B.M. 



Var. a. The two apical segments fuscous. 



Yar. /3. The three apical segments fuscous. 



Var. y. The three apical segments and a dot on the third fuscous. 



Var. 8. The three apical segments and a dot on the second and third 

 fuscous. 



Var. e. Only the margins of three basal segments obscurely red. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Fuscous ; the face and disk of the thorax 

 have an ochraceous pubescence, the clypeus white and having two 

 black dots ; the wings as in the female ; the legs rufo -testaceous, 

 their pubescence pale ochraceous. Abdomen lanceolate, the apical 

 margins of the segments obscurely rufo-piceous. 



Var. a. Abdomen black. 



This species is local, but plentiful in certain localities ; at Kings- 



