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legs dark rufo-piceous, the posterior tibiae aud all the tarsi pale 

 ferruginous and clothed with fulvous pubescence, the floccus pale 

 fulvous. Abdomen ovate, the apical margins of the segments 

 obscurely rufo-piceous ; the apical fimbria fusco-ferruginous. B.M. 



Male. Length 4-4|- lines. — Black ; head subquadrate, much larger 

 than the thorax, sometimes more than twice the size ; the man- 

 dibles forcipate and armed at their base with an acute spine ; the 

 antennae as long as the thorax ; the wings subhyaline, and faintly 

 clouded at their apical margins, the nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; 

 the thorax has a little pale fulvous pubescence at the sides ; the 

 posterior tibiae, the anterior and intermediate pairs at their apex, 

 and the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen lanceolate, the apical 

 margin of the first, the basal and apical margins of the second, and 

 the basal margin of the third segments broadly rufo-testaceous ; 

 the extreme apex has a fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Var. or. The abdomen only having the apical margin of the first and 

 the basal and apical of the second segments rufo-testaceous. 



This species was first taken by the late Mr. Thomas Desvignes 

 near Windsor ; it has been subsequently found in some abundance 

 near Lea Mills, Bristol, by the late Mr. Waleott, who presented a 

 fine series to the British Museum ; it has also been found at Guest- 

 ling, near Hastings. 



Div. II. The thorax densely pubescent, the abdomen naked, smooth, 

 and shining; without fascice of pale pubescence. 



9. Andrena cineraria. 



A. atra, albido pubescens ; thorace hirsuto, fascia atra ; abdomine 

 atro-cserulescente nitido. 



Andrena cineraria, Fabr. Ent Syst. ii. 329 ; Syst. Piez. 323. 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 117* 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 238. 



Smith, Zool. v. 1735 ; Bees Great Brit. 58. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 211. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 145 ; Hym. Scand. ii. 81. 

 Apis cineraria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 953, et Cab. Mus. Linn. Soc. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 329 ; Syst. Piez. 323. 

 Melitta cineraria, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 98. 



Female. Length 5-7 lines. — Black; the face clothed with white 

 pubescence; that on the thorax is white, having a black band 

 between the wings ; the wings subhyaline, their apical margins 

 having a dark fuscous cloud; the pubescence of the legs black, 

 except the fringe on the anterior femora, which is white ; abdomen 

 blue-black, smooth and shining ; the apical fimbria fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 5-6 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax clothed with 

 white pubescence ; the wings hyaline, their apical margins faintly 

 clouded; the femora fringed with white pubescence. Abdomen 



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