2214 Insects. 



Male. — (Length 4 lines). Black, punctured; the head rather wider 

 than the thorax ; the face clothed with long white pubescence, or 

 slightly stained with yellow ; the scape of the antennae large, thicker 

 than the remaining joints, which are compressed towards the apex, 

 sub-testaceous, and gradually tapering to the apex ; the pubescence 

 on the disk of the thorax is thin and of a dirty white ; on the sides of 

 the metathorax and beneath it is white ; the tarsi ferruginous ; be- 

 neath, clothed with pale fulvous pubescence ; that on the tibiae, femo- 

 ra, &c, is white ; the tegulae testaceous ; the wings sub-fuscous, 

 clouded at their apical margins. Abdomen, all the segments have a 

 white marginal fascia ; the margin of the sixth segment is minutely 

 dentate in the centre, and has laterally an incurved sharp tooth or 

 spine, the seventh entire. 



There is a series of specimens of this insect in the national collec- 

 tion ; the label attached gives the locality of Leicester. I have not 

 seen it in any other cabinet, except that of Mr. Desvignes, and his 

 specimens came from the British Museum : they were captured, I be- 

 lieve, by Dr. Leach. 



Page 600, ' Zoologist.' Nomada xanthosticta. I have stated that 

 there is no specimen of this insect in the Kirbyan cabinet ; and I ne- 

 ver saw one answering to the description until the autumn of 1846, 

 when the late Rev. G. T. Rudd sent one or two to me, requesting to 

 know if I could tell him the name of the species. I had no doubt, at 

 first sight, that it was Nomada xanthosticta; the yellow tubercles, fer- 

 ruginous tegulae, and spots on the scutellum, are marked distinctive 

 characters : one of the specimens is in my own collection. Mr. Rudd 

 informed me that he captured them near his own house, Worsall 

 Grange, Yarm, Yorkshire. 



Page 891. Saropoda bimaculata. Omit the words between the 

 inverted commas : — Head, the clypeus pale yellow, a central attenu- 

 ated line running upwards, "and another along the margin of the 

 eyes? as high as the base of the antennae, yellow, "forming a tri- 

 dentate mark." 



Page 895, line 14, for repainted read repointed. 



Page 1448. Heriades truncorum. Both sexes captured by Dr. 

 Leach, at Kingsbridge, Devon. 



Page 1743. Sp. 28, alter the name Andrena proxima to A. consi- 

 milis. 



Page 1749. Andrena bidentata should be Andrena tridentala. 



