Insects. 1751 



bescence, and the anal fimbria is bright fulvous, the fascia on the ab- 

 dominal segments are full one-third broader than in fuscipes, although 

 at first sight the two species might be confounded ; they are very dis- 

 tinct, but some species of this genus very closely resemble each 

 other. 



Sp. 43. Andrena fuscipes. 

 Melitta fuscipes, Kirby. 



Female. — (Length 5 — 5 J lines). Black ; the face is very thinly 

 clothed with pale fulvous pubescence, a line of pale short down along 

 the inner margin of the eyes, reaching to the vertex ; four or five of 

 the apical joints of the antennae are rufo-piceous beneath ; the pubes- 

 cence on the thorax above is fulvous ; it is very thick, but paler on 

 the metathorax; the tegulae testaceous; the wings subhy aline, slightly 

 clouded at their apical margins, their nervures piceous ; the floccus 

 very pale yellow, nearly white ; the scop a is pale beneath, but fus- 

 cous above: the tarsi beneath are ferruginous ; the apical joints are 

 rufo-piceous. Abdomen sub-ovate ; all the margins have a fascia of 

 very pale fulvous pubescence ; the apical fimbria fuscous. 



Male. — (Length 4 lines). Black; the pubescence on the face is 

 nearly white ; on the thorax it is ochraceous, very pale at the sides 

 and beneath ; the tegulae nigro-piceous ; the wings iridescent, sub- 

 hyaline, and slightly clouded at their margins ; the tarsi beneath have 

 a ferruginous pubescence ; the apical joints are rufo-ferruginous. 

 Abdomen lanceolate ; the margins have each a pale fascia of rather 

 long pubescence, which also thinly clothes the basal segment, and is 

 scattered between the fasciae. 



The male of this species is the pubescens of Kirby ; the specimen 

 in the Kirby an cabinet is gray from age, a change to which this 

 species is very subject, particularly the male : it is very abundant in 

 Hampshire, frequenting heaths : I never found it in any other locality ; 

 it is also very plentiful at Weybridge, in July and August. Mr. 

 Kirby considered the male to be the pubescens of Fabricius, but as 

 the description of that author would equally well suit several other 

 species, I have retained Mr. Kirby's name of the female. 



Sp. 44. Andrena lacinia, Smith. 



Female. — (Length 5 lines). Black; the face thinly clothed 

 with short pale pubescence ; the antennae slightly piceous beneath. 



