1 744 Insects. 



pearing in different lights of different colours, more or less tinged 

 with fulvous ; the tarsi beneath ferruginous. 



Male. — (Length 4 — 5 lines). Black ; the face clothed with white 

 pubescence ; the antennae as long as the head and thorax, the joints 

 slightly arcuate. Thorax thinly clothed with pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence beneath, and on the femora it is white ; the tegulae piceous ; 

 the wings hyaline, iridescent, slightly clouded at the margins, their 

 nervures testaceous ; the posterior tibia?, and the intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi, pale rufous, usually a dark stain on the posterior 

 tibiae at the base beneath. Abdomen ovate-lanceolate ; the apex 

 fulvous. 



This species I have received from Bristol, also from Scotland : the 

 male described I received with the specimens from Scotland. I also 

 found the same male arranged with this species in the collection of 

 Mr. Shuckard, now in the possession of Mr. Desvignes. 



Sp. 30. Andrena distincta, Smith. 



Female. — (Length 6 lines). Black; the face thinly clothed with 

 fulvous pubescence; the antennae as long as the head and thorax, 

 the latter thinly clothed with fulvous ; the tegulae rufo-piceous ; the 

 wings subfuscous, slightly clouded at their apical margins, the ner- 

 vures testaceous ; the legs rufo-piceous ; the posterior tibiae and all 

 the tarsi ferruginous ; the floccus very pale fulvous ; the scopa bright 

 fulvous. Abdomen sub-ovate, the margins of the segments slightly 

 piceous ; the apical fimbria ferruginous. 



This species is rare in cabinets ; I possess but a single specimen ; 

 there are two or three in Mr. Desvignes's collection : I cannot learn 

 their locality. I do not know the male. 



Sp. 31. Andrena conjuncta, Smith. 



Female. — (Length 6 lines). Black ; the face has a thin dark ful- 

 vous pubescence ; the antennae piceous beneath. Thorax very thinly 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence on the disk, becoming paler on the 

 sides and metathorax ; the wings hyaline, slightly clouded at their 

 apical margins ; the posterior tibiae and tarsi dark ferruginous ; the 

 floccus pale fulvous ; the scopa bright fulvous beneath, above less 

 bright and shining; the tarsi bright fulvous beneath. Abdomen 

 ovate, convex, and punctate ; the margins of the segments laterally 

 are slightly fringed with a few pale fulvous hairs ; the anal fimbria 

 black. 



