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andkestid^:. 



1. Cilissa hsemorrhoidalis. 



C. atra, pallide pubescens, thoracis limbo fulvescente ; abdornine 

 ovato, basi retusa, ano fulvo-aureo. 



Cilissa ksemorrhoidalis, Leach, JEdin. Fncycl. ix. 155. 



Smith, Zool. vi. 2207 ■ Bees Great Brit. 109. 



Nyland. Notis. ur Sdllsk.pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. ii. 268, 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 210. 



Thorns. Hym. Scand. ii. 65. 

 Andrena hsemorrhoidalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 313 ; Syst. Piez. 327 $ . 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 65. 20 £ . 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 459. 

 Melitta chrysura, Kirb?/, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 172 J $ . 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii.' 214. 

 Kirbya chrysura, St.-Farg. lib. cit. 146. 



Nyland. Noiis. ur Sdllsk.pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 246. 



Female. Length 5^-6 lines. — Black ; the face clothed with short 

 pale fulvous pubescence; the flagellum, except the extreme base, 

 fulvo-piceous beneath ; the margin of the vertex fringed "with 

 black pubescence. Thorax, the middle of the disk clothed with 

 black pubescence, around which it is fulvous ; on the sides and 

 beneath it is paler ; legs dark rufo-piceous, their pubescence short 

 and fulvous, the scopa bright fulvous, the tarsi beneath ferrugi- 

 nous, the apical joint pale rufo-testaceous ; wings' subhyaline, 

 faintly clouded at their apical margins, the nervures fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, subdepressed ; at the base a little 

 pale pubescence ; the apical margins of the intermediate segments 

 have a very narrow fringe of white pubescence, frequently more or 

 less obliterated ; the fifth and sixth segments densely clothed with 

 golden-fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 4J-5 lines. — The face densely clothed with bright 

 pale fulvous pubescence ; antennae, the joints excavated beneath 

 and subdentate at their apex, not quite so long as the thorax. 

 Thorax, the middle of the disk haviug a thin black pubescence ; 

 the rest of the thorax densely clothed with pale fulvous ; the legs 

 have a similar clothing; the apical joint of the tarsi ferruginous; 

 wings subhyaline, faintly clouded at their margins ; the nervures 

 ferruginous. Abdomen elongate-ovate, convex; the two basal 

 segments have a thin pale pubescence ; on the following it is black, 

 intermixed at the sides with pale fulvous hairs ; the apex fulvous. 



B.M, 



This insect appears about the middle of July, and is found up to 

 the end of August ; it appears to restrict its visits to the flowers of 

 Campanula rotundifolia (the common bluebell). It is local, but 

 plentiful in certain localities ; it has been found at Shirley, Kings- 

 down (near Deal), Weybridge, Bournemouth, Bristol, Norwich, &c. 



