Insects. 1921 



Male. — (Length 3 — 3j lines). Black ; the clypeus white, with two 

 black dots ; its pubescence is white ; along the inner margin of the 

 eyes it is of a sooty black. Thorax, a little thin rather long pubes- 

 cence at the sides, and on the metathorax ; the disk shining and 

 nearly naked ; the wings iridescent, hyaline, and very slightly clouded 

 at their margins ; the intermediate and posterior tarsi, and the apical 

 joints of the anterior, ferruginous. Abdomen convex, shining, and 

 having a thin white fringe on the margins of the segments, frequently 

 obliterated ; the extreme apex pale ferruginous. 



I have not met with this species in the neighbourhood of London : 

 it -occurs, however, at Weybridge. I have a specimen of the male 

 taken in Ireland. It is abundant, Mr. J. Hardy informs me, at Pen- 

 manshiel Wood, Berwickshire. It forms its burrows in the banks 

 skirting the pathways which run through the wood : at Weybridge I 

 captured it in a similar situation. 



Sp. 54. Andrena labialis. 

 Melitta labialis, Kirby. 



Female. — (Length 6 lines). Black ; the face has a fulvous pubes- 

 cence, the clypeus being nearly naked ; the tips of the mandibles fer- 

 ruginous. Thorax thinly clothed above with fulvous, more thickly 

 so, but of a paler colour, at the sides, and on the metathorax laterally; 

 the tegulse pale testaceous ; the wings clouded at their margins ; a 

 short fulvous pubescence on the legs ; the tarsi ferruginous ; the floc- 

 cus very pale fulvous ; the scopa fulvous. Abdomen ovate, rather 

 depressed ; the second, third and fourth segments have a narrow mar- 

 ginal fringe of pale fulvous hair, the two first generally interrupted ; 

 the apical fimbria fulvous. 



Male. — (Length 5 — 5j lines). Black; the clypeus, and an angular 

 patch on each side, pale yellow ; two black dots on the clypeus ; the 

 antennae slightly piceous beneath. Thorax clothed above with short 

 fulvous pubescence, much paler at the sides and beneath ; the, tegulae 

 pale testaceous ; the wings slightly testaceous, clouded at their mar- 

 gins ; the legs have a pale fulvous pubescence, but it is nearly white 

 on the femora beneath ; the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ovate-lance- 

 olate ; the segments have laterally a pale marginal fringe, frequently 

 obliterated on the first segment ; the extreme apex fulvous. 



This species is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of London : 

 it forms large colonies. I have taken it at Hampstead Heath, High- 

 gate, Hawley, Hants, Weybridge, &c. Its pubescence soon fades, 



