4. ATSTDKESTA. 55 



Both sexes of this species were taken in Yorkshire, near Wake- 

 field, in the month of June ; it has been taken near Bristol sparingly, 

 but does not appear rare in Scotland. There were specimens in the 

 Shuckardian collection, purchased by Mr. Walcott, of Bristol ; but 

 that collection perished in its transit to that place from London. 

 The species has been recently taken at Chobham, in the month of 

 July, by Mr. Edward Saunders. 



37. Andrena picipes. 



A. nigra, pallido rufescenti villosa, capite pube atra, tibiis pos- 

 ticis scopa fulva, 



Andrena picipes, Smith, Zool. v. 1746; Bees Great Brit. 83 $, 

 Melitta picipes, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 127 S • 



Female. Length 5 A lines. — Black; the pubescence on the head 

 sooty black, that on the thorax above pale ferruginous, palest on 

 the metathorax, the sides, and beneath ; wings hyaline, faintly 

 clouded and iridescent at their apical margins ; the nervures fer- 

 ruginous ; the tegulse rufo-piceous ; the legs dark rufo-piceous, the 

 apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; the scopa on the posterior 

 tibiae fulvous ; the basal joint of the tarsi rufo-fuscous within. 

 Abdomen ovate and with a fringe of pale fulvous pubescence on 

 the apical margins of the segments ; the apical fimbria black. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black ; the head wider than the thorax ; 

 the face with thin fulvous pubescence ; the mandibles forcipate, 

 and ferruginous at their apex ; the joints of the antennae arcuate. 

 Thorax thinly clothed above with fulvous pubescence, with pale on 

 the metathorax, the sides, the legs, and beneath ; the legs dark 

 rufo-piceous, with the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous ; the wings hya- 

 line and iridescent, the nervures pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, and with a thin pale fulvous pubescence ; the apical 

 margins of the segments narrowly pale testaceous. 



This species was taken at Portslade, near Shoreham, by Mr. 

 Walcott, I believe in June. The three specimens I have seen are 

 all stylopized. There is no specimen in Kirby's type collection ; he 

 described it from one in Drury's cabinet. 



Div. Y. Abdomen subpubescent. Males only known. 



38. Andrena clypeata. 



A. nigra, hirsutissima, fuscescens, clypeo albo barbato, abdomins 

 pallido-lanato. 



Andrena clypeata, Smith, Bees Great Brit. 84 <$ . 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black ; head as wide as the thorax, 

 covered with long fuscous pubescence, the clypeus having a long 

 white beard ; the mandibles forcipate, their tips ferruginous, pro- 



