54 • ANDKEKLD^!. 



armed at their base with a minute tooth, their tips ferruginous; 

 the flagellum fulvo-piceous beneath. Thorax, the pubescence 

 ochraceous; the wings subhyaline; the tarsi bright fulvous 

 beneath, the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 

 lanceolate and shining ; the three intermediate segments have a 

 narrow white marginal fascia ; the apex has a little fusco-f erru- 

 ginous pubescence. B.M. 



This species appears in July and August, and was taken some years 

 ago by Mr. Heysham, near Carlisle, in abundance. I found both 

 sexes on the wild briony, at Southend, and on the same plant at 

 Blackwater, Hants ; but the insect must be regarded as a very local 

 one, rarely to be met with. 



36. Andrena fucata. 



A. nigra, cinerascenti pilosa, thorace rufescenti hirto; pedibus 

 rufo-piceis ; scopa fusca, subtus albida. 



Andrena fucata, Smith, Zool. v. 1743; Bees Great Brit. 82 <$ 2- 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 149 ; Hym. Scancl ii. 93. 

 Andrena clvpearis, Nyland. Nobis, ur Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. 

 i. 215. 



Schench, Nass. Bien. 243. 



Female. Length 5-6 lines. — Black ; the face covered with griseous 

 pubescence, that on the vertex fulvous, a line of silvery pile on 

 each side of the face in the depressions close to the margins of the 

 eyes ; the clypeus strongly punctured, having a smooth line down 

 the centre, the anterior margin deeply emarginate, and produced 

 on each side into a sharp angle. Thorax thinly clothed with ful- 

 vous pubescence, most dense and bright on the scutellum ; at the 

 sides of the metathorax it is pale ; wings subhyaline, their apical 

 margins clouded, the nervures ferruginous ; legs dark fuscous, the 

 floccus white ; the scopa obscure fulvous above, beneath silvery ; 

 the legs have a scattered pale fulvous pubescence, that on the tarsi 

 beneath ferruginous, their apical joints rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 

 at the base thinly clothed with cinereous pubescence, on the inter- 

 mediate portion it is fuscous but very sparing, a few scattered 

 cinereous hairs at the sides ; on the fifth and apical segments it is 

 fuscous, the margins of the segments obscure testaceous. B.M. 



Male. Length 4j lines. — The face with dense pale fulvous pu- 

 bescence ; the mandibles subdentate at their base or sharply angu- 

 lar; the clypeus emarginate, the angles acute; the joints of the 

 antennae arcuate. Thorax above with fulvous pubescence, that 

 on the metathorax, the sides, beneath, and on the legs griseous ; 

 the tibiae and tarsi rufo-piceous, the latter pale ; wings as in the 

 female. Abdomen ovate-lanceolate, shining ; the apex with a 

 little pale fulvous pubescence ; the apical margins of the segments 

 obscurely rufo-piceous, brightly so beneath. The colour of the 

 pubescence of the thorax soon fades to pale fulvous in both sexes. 



