Insects. 593 



Sp. 5. Nomada fucata, Panzer. 

 Apis fucata j Kirby. 



Female, (length 4 to 4^ lines)* Black : head, a bifurcate patch on 

 the clypeus, the labrum and mandibles rufous, the latter black at their 

 tips ; antennae totally rufous : thorax, collar, tubercles, tegulae, and a 

 spot on the scutellum, yellow : legs rufous ; the coxae, and the four 

 posterior femora at their extreme base, black : abdomen, first segment 

 rufous, the extreme base and two lateral round dots black, the apical 

 margin of this and the three following segments piceous ; the second 

 segment has a yellow fascia, interrupted by a rufous angular patch in 

 the centre ; the yellow fasciae on the remaining segments are entire ; 

 beneath, the first and second have a rufous, and the third and fourth 

 a yellow fascia ; the margins piceous. 



Male, (4 to 4^- lines). Black : head, a yellow bifurcate patch on 

 the clypeus ; the labrum, mandibles, and front of the scape of the 

 antennae, yellow, the latter has a dark stain behind ; the seventh, 

 eighth and ninth joints generally stained behind : the thorax has the 

 collar, tubercles, tegulae, and a square spot on the scutellum, yellow : 

 legs, coxae black, anterior pair yellow in front ; the extreme base of 

 all the femora beneath black ; all the tibiae and tarsi yellow, variegated 

 with rufous : the abdomen above as in the female ; the second seg- 

 ment has the angular rufous patch in the centre smaller, in rare in- 

 stances obsolete ; two yellow spots in rare instances on the first 

 segment ; beneath all the segments have yellow fasciae, the margins 

 rufo-piceous. This is the Apis varia, Kirby, and Nomada varia, 

 Panzer. 



It appears in July, and is very local. I have found it at Darent, 

 entering the burrows of Colletes succincta. 



Sp. 6. Nomada sexfasciata, Jurine. 

 Apis Schcefferella, Kirby's Mon. 



Female, (length 6 lines). Black : head, the labrum and mandibles 

 yellow, stained with rufous ; the face has an angular, lateral, yellow 

 patch, reaching from the base of the mandibles as high as the base 

 of the antennae, which are rufous, with the scape black behind : thorax, 

 the tubercles and tegulae yellow, frequently stained with ferruginous ; 

 two yellow spots on the scutellum : legs rufous ; coxae black, extreme 

 base behind stained with piceous ; all the tibiae and tarsi variegated 

 with yellow : abdomen with five yellow fasciae, the three first inter- 

 rupted; beneath, the third, fourth and fifth segments have yellow fasciae. 



