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beneath ferruginous; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. 

 Abdomen oblong-ovate; the first and three following segments 

 fringed with pale yellowish white pubescence ; the two apical seg- 

 ments with black pubescence. . B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black; the face clothed with pale pu- 

 bescence; that on the clypeus anteriorly is white, its anterior 

 margin emarginate, the lateral angles produced into sharp teeth ; 

 the labrum bidentate ; mandibles forcipate, their tips ferruginous ; 

 antennae not quite as long as the thorax. Thorax clothed above 

 thinly with fulvous pubescence, beneath it is white ; wings as in 

 the female. Abdomen ovate-lanceolate, the segments thinly fringed 

 with pale pubescence, the apex fulvous. ■ B.M. 



This insect is found during July and August, and frequents the 

 common bramble (Rubus fruticosus). Pound plentifully at Kings- 

 down, near Deal, at the foot of the chalk cliffs ; at Lowestoft, on 

 the common; also at Folkestone, and at Luccombe Chine, Isle of 

 Wight. 



32. Andrena pubescens. 



A. nigra, pallido subvillosa, thorace fulvo, abdominis segmentis 

 margine albidis, antennis subtus plantisque rufis. 



Andrena pubescens, Smith, Bees Great Brit. 79 <$ 2 • 

 Melitta pubescens, Ki?-by, Mon. Apitm Angl. ii. 141 £ . 

 Melitta fuscipes, Kirby, lib. cit. 1 86 $ . 

 Andrena fuscipes, Smith, Zool. v. 1751. 



Hyland. Notis. ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 256. 



Schench, Nass. Bien. 250. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 148 ; Hym. Scand, ii. 87. 

 Andrena cincta, Nyland. lib. cit. i. 220. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black ; the face clothed with pale ful- 

 vous pubescence, a line of pale downy pile along the inner margins 

 touching the eyes; the flagellum more or less fulvous beneath. 

 Thorax, the disk clothed with fulvous pubescence, on the sides of 

 the metathorax it is much paler ; the tegulse rufo -testaceous ; the 

 wings subhyaline, slightly clouded at their apical margins, the 

 nervures rufo-piceous ; the legs rufo-testaceous, having a fuscous 

 pilosity above ; the floccus yellowish white ; the scopa pale fulvous 

 beneath ; the apical joints of the tarsi testaceous. Abdomen sub- 

 ovate, the basal segment covered with pale fulvous pubescence, and 

 the three following segments having a fascia of the same ; the 

 apical fimbria rufo-fuscous. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — The face has a dense white pubescence ; 

 on the thorax it is ochraceous, very pale on the sides and beneath ; 

 the wings hyaline and iridescent ; legs as in the female ; the ab- 

 domen lanceolate, and covered with a long, dense, pale yellow 

 pubescence. B.M. 



This is a summer insect, and found during July and August. 

 I have always observed it frequenting the purple heath ; it is very 



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