lx Mr. F. Smith's New British Bees. 



head and thorax ; the face has a little pale yellow pubescence. Thorax shining, 

 punctate ; a little pale yellow pubescence on the sides and metathorax ; all the tarsi 

 and the posterior tibiae pale ferruginous, the latter black at their base ; wings subhy- 

 aline ; nervures and tegulae piceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, punctate ; the basal 

 segment constricted ; the other segments have their margins narrowly piceous ; the 

 apex has a little bright yellow pubescence. 



This species was sent to me by the Kev. Mr. Little, from Scotland. It is quite 

 distinct from any of our previously described species : it is most closely allied to the 

 male of A. albicans. 



Andrena similis. 



Male. — (Length 4 lines). Black : the face and cheeks clothed with long white 

 pubescence ; that on the vertex is pale fulvous, as is also that which clothes the disk 

 of the thorax ; beneath and on the coxae and femora it is long and white ; the poste- 

 rior tibiae and basal joint of the tarsi rufo-piceous ; the tibia? beneath have a black 

 stain, reaching nearly to the apex ; all the claws ferruginous ; the tegulae piceous ; 

 wings hyaline ; nervures piceous. Abdomen ovate, shining, finely punctured ; the 

 margins of the segments narrowly piceous ; the apex fulvous ; at the base a thin 

 clothing of cinereous pubescence ; beneath, the margins are broadly piceous. 



This male is nearly allied to that of A. cingulata, but abundantly distinct. My 

 specimens are from Bristol. I have seen others in the collections of Messrs. Des- 

 vignes and Pickering. 



Notes. — I described a species of Andrena (Zool. 1743) under the name of proxima : 

 that name having been previously used by Kirby, I changed it to consimilis, forget- 

 ting that I had used that name "(Zool. 1736) for a species allied to nitida. I now 

 desire that the name aestiva be used for the first-named species, which is allied to 

 Gwynana. 



I also described a new indigenous species of wasp from the North, and called it 

 Vespa borealis ; I have subsequently discovered that Mr. Kirby described a species 

 from North America, in the ' Fauna Boreali- Americana,' naming it V. borealis : I 

 therefore propose, in lieu of the name given (Zool. 170), to substitute V. arborea, 

 from its habit of constructing its nest in trees. 



In my descriptions of humble bees, I named the 13th species Bombus montanus, 

 a name previously used by St. Fargeau, in lieu of which I propose B. monticola. 



Corrections and additions to the synonymy of Halictus abdominalis (Zool. 2106). — 

 Male: Hylcsus abdominalis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 53, 18. Apis abdominalis, Kirby, 

 Mon. Ap. Ang. ii. 73, 30. Halictus terebrator, Walckenaer, Mem. Halict. 72. 

 Female: Andrena vulpina, Fab. Syst. Piez. 326, 18; Panz. Faun. Germ. f. 18. Apis 

 bicincta, Schrank. Enumer. Ins. Aust. 411, 826? Melitta fulvocincta, Kirby, Mon. 

 Ap. Ang. ii. 68, 28. Halictus terebrator, Walckenaer. 



Frederick Smith. 



