38 ANDKEKED^E. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black ; the face and cheeks clothed with 

 long white pubescence, that on the thorax above fulvo-ochraceous ; 

 the femora fringed with long white pubescence ; the tegulse rufo- 

 piceous ; wings hyaline, iridescent and faintly clouded at their apical 

 margins, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the posterior tibiae and 

 the tarsi rufo-piceous, the former having a black stain beneath, 

 nearly extending to their apex ; the claws ferruginous. Abdomen 

 ovate, shining, delicately punctured, and having a thinly scattered 

 short griseous pubescence, the apex fulvous ; beneath, the margins 

 of the segments have a narrow white fringe. B.M. 



This male closely resembles that of A. albicans ; but in the finest 

 condition the face is clothed with white, in A. albicans it is pale 

 fulvous ; the pubescence generally is more inclining to cinereous, 

 the abdomen much more finely punctured, and the second siibmar- 

 ginal cell is less narrowed towards the marginal than in A. albicans, 

 and the antennae are shorter than in that species. Some of these 

 differences may appear slight ; but by them alone the males of many 

 very distinct species of this genus can be distinguished. The Mu- 

 seum is indebted to Mr. Walcott for specimens of this species cap- 

 tured near Bristol. 



Div. Til. The thorax and abdomen densely covered with pubescence. 

 16. Andrena fulva. 



A. atra, thorace abdomineque supra hirsutis fulvo-aureis, subtus 

 nigris. 



Andrena fulva, St.-Farq. ii. 245 £ . 



Smith j Zool. v. 1746 ; Bees Great Brit. 64 $ $ . 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sdllsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 214. 

 Apis fulva, Schrank, Enum. Ins. Austr. 400 £ • 

 Melitta fulva, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 128 $ • 

 Melitta armata, Kirhy, lib. cit. 124 tf . 

 Andrena vestita, Fabr. Fnt. Syst. ii. 329 j Syst. Piez. 323. 



Panz. Faun. Germ 55. 9. 

 Apis vulpina, Christ. Hym. 161, pi. 12. fig. 13. 



Female. Length 5^-6^ lines. — The pubescence of the thorax above 

 fulvo-ferruginous, that of the abdomen above bright fulvous ; the 

 pubescence on the body beneath, legs, and head black ; the wings 

 hyaline, their apical margins faintly clouded, the nervures ferru- 

 ginous. B.M. 



Male. Length 4-5| lines. — Black ; the head as wide, sometimes 

 much wider than the thorax ; the clypeus with long silvery white 

 pubescence, above which it is slightly fulvous ; the mandibles 

 elongate, arcuate, and armed at their base with a short tooth. 

 Thorax above clothed with pale fulvous pubescence; the legs 

 have a fulvous pubescence ; the posterior tarsi and apical joints of 

 the anterior and intermediate pairs ferruginous ; wings as in the 

 other sex. The abdomen ovate lanceolate, the two basal seg- 



