4. AITDREXA. 69 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black ; the face with pale fulvous pubescence, 

 on the anterior margin of the clypeus and on the cheeks it is 

 much paler. Thorax, the pubescence on the disk and also on the 

 scutellum fulvous and not very dense; it is much paler on the 

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

 margins, the nervures pale ferruginous; the tarsi and tips of the 

 posterior tibiae pale ferruginous. Abdomen ovate-lanceolate, smooth, 

 and shining, the lateral margins of the second, third, and fourth 

 segments with a narrow fringe of white pubescence. B.AL 



This species appears in July, and is taken during August also. 

 The M. nudiuscula of Kirby appears to be a very faded and worn spe- 

 cimen of this species. In the observations in the ' Monographia ' the 

 tarsi are said to be black ; only a portion of the tarsi remains on the 

 type specimen, and it is ferruginous. 



This Andrena is frequently taken on the flowers of the bramble. 



I have little doubt of the M. lewinella of Kirby being the male 

 of A. dorsata, but have not felt inclined to change the name. 



57. Andrena combinata. 



A. atra, pallide fulvo villosa, thorace ferrugineo, metathorace 

 utrinque fimbria pallida ; abdomine fasciis tribus interruptis 

 albidis. 



Andrena combinata, Smith, Zool. v. 1923 ; Bees Great Brit. 99 (yar. 

 A. dorsata). 



Schenck, Kass. Bien. 256. 

 Apis combinata, Christ. Hym. 187, tab. 15. fig. 9 ? 

 Melitta combinata, Kirby, Mori. Apum Angl. ii. 153 $ $ . 



Female. Length 4-4| lines. — Black ; the face with fulvous pubes- 

 cence on each side, that on the clypeus being shorter and inclining 

 to cinereous ; the cheeks with long pale pubescence ; the apical 

 joint of the antennas usually rufo-piceous beneath, and the mandi- 

 bles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax with rufous pubescence on 

 the disk, which extends to the postscutellum ; the metathorax with 

 dense, incurved, pale fulvous pubescence ; the apical joints of the 

 tarsi and all the joints of the posterior pair pale ferruginous ; the 

 pubescence on the legs pale and glittering ; wings hyaline, faintly 

 clouded at their apex ; nervures pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 

 subovate, slightly convex, very finely and closely punctured, and 

 shining ; the apical margins of the three intermediate segments 

 with narrow white pubescent fasciae, the first usually, and fre- 

 quently the second, more or less interrupted ; the ventral segments 

 with a long pale marginal fringe. 



lale. — This sex very closely resembles that of A. dorsata, but is 

 to be distinguished from it by having the posterior tibiae entirely 

 black, and by having only one or two of the apical joints of the 

 anterior and intermediate tarsi pale rufo-testaceous, the posterior 



