1916 Insects. 



Xanthia xerampelina. Two, August 30 and September 10. 



Latterly I have taken two Charaeas cespitis, and several Geometra tiliaria and ero- 

 saria, and Trichiura crataegi. — H. T. Stainton ; Mountsfield, Lewisham, September 

 16, 1847. 



Occurrence of Sphinx Convolvuli at Battel. — A fine female has just been brought 

 to me alive ; it was found in a hop bin. — J. B. Ellman ; Battel, September 13, 1847. 



Capture of Xanthia Centrago near Bristol. — This rare and beautiful species seems 

 to have occurred in unusual plenty this season. Several have been captured in the 

 north of England, and on the 21st of August I had the pleasure of taking a fine spe- 

 cimen on an ash tree on Durdham Downs ; between this date and the 9th of Septem- 

 ber I captured upwards of thirty specimens : it was also taken in some plenty by other 

 collectors in the neighbourhood. I never met with this species before, though I un- 

 derstand it has occurred in the same locality for some years past. — P. H. Vaughan ; 

 Redland, Bristol, September 13, 1847. 



Capture of Porrectaria Laricella of Ilubner. — I took nine specimens of this silvery 

 little moth on the fences at Dulwich, Heme Hill and Camberwell, during the first 

 week in July. This is, I believe, the first time it has been found in England ; at any 

 rate it is a new species to our list of Lepidoptera. — W. Thomson, Jun. ; 6, Loudoun 

 Place, North Brixton, September 14, 1847. 



Descriptions of British Bees belonging to the Genus Andrena of 

 Fabricius. By Frederick Smith, Esq. 



(Continued from page 1753). 



Sp. 46. Andrena fulvicrus. 

 Melitta fulvicrus, Kirby. Meliita contigua, Kirby, var. male. 



Female. — (Length 4j — b\ lines). Black ; the face clothed with 

 short pale fulvous pubescence ; at the base of the antennse, on the 

 vertex, and along the inner margin of the eyes, it is black. Thorax, 

 the disk thinly clothed with fulvous pubescence ; on the sides and on 

 the metathorax it is of a paler colour ; the tegulae rufo-piceous ; the 

 wings hyaline, slightly clouded at their margins, the nervures pale 

 ferruginous ; the pubescence on the legs fulvous ; the floccus is pale 

 fulvous, the scopa bright fulvous ; the tarsi beneath ferruginous. Ab- 

 domen ovate, very finely punctured, rather convex ; all the segments 

 have a marginal fascia of pale fulvous hair ; the apical fimbria black ; 

 beneath, the segments have a thin fringe of pale hair, on the apical 

 one it is black. 



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



