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down, near Deal, it has been taken in abundance, all the above 

 varieties being found there. It frequents the wild scabious (Scabiosa 

 arvensis) ; it appears in July and August. Other known localities 

 are Croydon, Dartford, Lewes, Norwich, Parley Heath, Hants, and 

 Coombe Martin, North Devon. 



7. Andrena cingulata. 



A. nigra, cinereo subpubescens ; abdomine glabriusculo, cingulo 

 ferrugineo utrinque puncto nigro. 



Andrena cingulata, St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 257. 



Smith, Zool. v. 1668 ; Bees Great Brit. 57. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 210. 



Thorns. Opusc. Fut. 143 ; Hym. Seand. ii. 75. 

 Nomada cingulata, Fabr. Fnt. Syst. ii. 349; Syst. Piez. 394. 



Rossi, Mantis. 326. 

 Apis albilabris, Panz. Faun. Germ. 56. 23 c? . 

 Apis sphegoides, Panz. lib. cit. 56. 24 $ • 

 Melitta cingulata, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 88. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Black and shining, the pubescence 

 cinereous ; a line of white pile on each side of the face along the 

 inner margin of the eyes ; the nagellum rufo-piceous beneath. 

 Thorax : the teguke rufo-piceous ; the wings subhyaline, faintly 

 clouded at their apical margins, the nervures nigro-piceous ; the 

 floccus and scopa beneath white, the latter fulvous above. Abdo- 

 men ovate, delicately punctured, the second and third segments and 

 the apical margin of the first red ; the second has on each side a 

 minute fuscous dot, the apical fimbria fulvous. B.M. 



Male. — This sex only differs from the female in having the clypeus 

 white, with two black dots, and the abdomen more convex above. 



B.M. 



This is not an uncommon bee, appearing about the middle of 

 May, and found up to the end of June ; it frequents the Germander 

 speedwell and is generally distributed. 



8. Andrena ferox. 



A. nigra, pallide fulvo villosa, abdomine nitido, tibiis plantisque 

 posticis fulvis. 



Andrena ferox, Smith, Zool. v. 1670 S ; Bees Great Brit 57. 

 Andrena distincta, Stnith, Zool. v. 1744 $ (nee Lucas, Fxpl. Sc. 

 Alger.). 



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

 fulvous pubescence ; the antennae nearly as long as the thorax ; the 

 clypeus coarsely punctured, and having in the centre a longitudinal 

 shining space. Thorax: the sides have a dense pale fulvous 

 pubescence, the disk nearly naked, having merely a few scattered 

 hairs ; the tegulae rufo-piceous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, faintly clouded 

 at their extreme apical margins, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the 



