1746 Insects. 



Sp. 34. Andrena picipes. 

 Melitta picipes, Kirby. 



Male. — (Length 4 lines). Head larger than the thorax, with a ga- 

 seous pubescence ; the face with hoary pubescence. Thorax clothed 

 above with fulvous ; the wings hyaline, their nervures testaceous ; the 

 legs rufo-piceous, their pubescence pallid. Abdomen fuscous, shin- 

 ing and pilose ; beneath, the segments are fringed with pallid hair. 



There is no specimen of this bee in the Kirbyan cabinet ; that de- 

 scribed by Mr. Kirby was in Dr. Drury's collection : I have not met 

 with any insect exactly agreeing with the description. 



Sp. 35. Andrena fulva, St. Fargeau. 



Apis fulva, Schrank. Apis vestita, Panzer. Andrena vestita, Fab. 



Apis armata, Linn., male. Melitta fulva and armata, Kirby. 



Female. — (Length 5j — 6J lines). Black ; the face clothed with 

 black pubescence. Thorax clothed above with rich ferruginous ; the 

 tegulae ferruginous ; the wings hyaline, slightly clouded at their api- 

 cal margins, their nervures ferruginous ; the legs clothed with black 

 pubescence ; the floccus of a sooty black. Abdomen ovate, clothed 

 with a dense rich bright fulvous pubescence ; the apical fimbria 

 is of a palish yellow ; beneath, the segments have a marginal black 

 fringe. 



'Male. — (Length 5 — 6 J lines). Black ; the head as large, or some- 

 times much larger than the thorax ; the clypeus clothed with white 

 pubescence, becoming slightly ferruginous at the base of the an- 

 tennae, which are nigro-piceous beneath ; the mandibles long, curved, 

 and bidentate at their apex, at their base beneath is a short acute 

 tooth. Thorax clothed above with ferruginous pubescence, as are 

 also the legs and abdomen ; on the latter it is thin, except at the mar- 

 gin of the basal segment, where it forms a longish fringe ; the wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, and slightly clouded at their apical margins, their 

 nervures testaceous. Abdomen ovate-lanceolate. 



I believe I was the first to discover the male of fulva, which I 

 did in 1840. I took several pairs in coitu, which since that period I 

 have observed on two or three occasions. This is the most beautiful 

 species of the genus ; it appears in April, and is generally distributed 

 on Hampstead Heath it is particularly abundant during April and 



