ANDRENID2E. 



2. Colletes fodiens. 



C. nigra, albido villosa, thorace fulvescente ; abdomine punctulatis- 

 simo, segmentis margine pallide fulvescente. 



Colletes fodiens, Smith, Zool. iv. 1277 j Bees Great Brit. 4(J$. 



Lucas, Expl. Sc. Alger, iii. 182. 



Nyland. Notts, ur Stilish, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 206. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 299. 

 Melitta fodiens, Kirby, Hon. Apum Angl. ii. 34, tab. 15. fig. 1 $ > 

 2d- 



Female. Length 4-4 j lines. — Black ; the face -with griseous pubes- 

 cence, that on the vertex and thorax above fulvous ; the cheeks, 

 thorax beneath, and the legs with whitish pubescence ; wings hya- 

 line, the nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, subopaque, and 

 very closely punctured, the basal segment most strongly so, its 

 apical margin usually more or less rufo-piceous ; the apical margins 

 of the segments with fasciae of pale ochraceous pubescence ; the 

 ventral segments fringed with white pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 3^-4 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the face densely 

 clotbed with pale fulvous pubescence ; that on the thorax above 

 ochraceous or pale fulvous ; the cheeks, thorax beneath, and the 

 legs with white pubescence. Abdomen fuscous, closely and rather 

 strongly punctured; the apical margins of the segments with fasciae 

 of pale pubescence, which is longer and less even than in the 

 other sex; the pubescence on the abdomen, between the fasciae, is 

 fuscous. B.M. 



This insect appears in July or beginning of August ; it frequents 

 the ragwort (Senecio jacobma) and also the tansey (Tanacetum vul- 

 gare). The species that most resembles it is C. fasciata. The latter 

 is uniformly a much smaller insect ; and the apical segment of the 

 abdomen is not depressed at the sides as in C. fodiens. The species 

 is generally distributed, and it has been taken in all parts of the Lnited 

 Kingdom. 



3. Colletes marginata. 



C. nigra, thorace pallide fulvescente, abdomine segmentis margine 

 flavido-cinerascentibus. 



Colletes marginata, Smith, Zool. iv. 1277 <$ $ : Bees Great Brit. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 300. 

 ^ Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 314; Hym. Scand. ii. 165. 

 Apis marginata, Linn. MS., type in Cab. Mus. Linn. Soc. J . 

 Colletes succincta, Nyland. Notis. ur Stilish pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 

 206. 



Female. Length 3|-4 lines. — Black ; the clypeus strongly punctured ; 

 the face densely clothed with pale fulvous pubescence. Thorax : 

 the disk with fulvo-ochraceous pubescence; on the sides, beneath, 



