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black at the base, the segments with minute lateral macula;, the second 

 smallest, those on the fifth approximating and largest ; beneath ru- 

 fous, segments above and below piceous at their margins. 



Var. I have described a large highly colored specimen ; in smaller 

 ones the macula? on the abdomen become more or less obliterated. 



Male, (2 J- lines). Black : head and thorax with scattered silvery 

 hairs ; maxillae and apex of the clypeus yellow ; antennae rufous ; 

 scape black, and slightly stained above ; the tegulae and tubercles 

 rufous ; the coxae and trochanters black, rufous at their apex ; the 

 femora black, rufous at their extreme apex, as well as the anterior 

 pair in front ; tibiae and tarsi rufous, all stained above, the posterior 

 pair annulated with black : abdomen rufous, black at the base, the 

 second and third with lateral yellow maculae ; beneath the margins of 

 the segments laterally are fringed with silvery hairs, above and below 

 the margins are piceous. 



Mr. Kirby has described the male : the other sex was not known 

 to him. I once met with both sexes of this bee in some numbers, 

 frequenting the burrows of Colletes fodiens. 



Sp. 13. Nomada furva, Panzer. 

 Apis Sheppardana, Kirby's Mon. 



Female, (2 to 2 J lines). Maxillae, labium, clypeus, and a line en- 

 circling the eyes, rufous ; scape of the antennae rufous in front, the 

 remaining segments piceo-rufous, except the apical one, which is 

 bright rufous ; thorax, the collar, tubercles, tegulae, a large patch be- 

 low the base of the wings, two spots on the scutellum, and an oblong 

 patch beneath them, rufous ; margins of the wings dark, a lunule to- 

 wards the apical margin : the legs are rufous, variegated with black 

 markings : abdomen rufo-piceous, the first and second segments with 

 a more or less distinct rufous fascia ; apical segment rufous, rufo-pi- 

 ceous beneath ; the margins of the segments with a fringe of silvery 

 hairs. 



Var. The rufous fascia not distinguishable in some dark specimens, 

 and the rufous line encircling the eyes is sometimes interrupted ; some- 

 times there are indistinct yellow maculae on the second and third 

 segments of the abdomen. 



Male, (2 to 2 J lines). Head black ; nose reddish -yellow ; a minute 

 yellow spot at the vertex of the eyes ; scape of the antennae black, the 

 remaining joints black above and rufous beneath : thorax black ; the 

 tubercles and tegulae rufous ; the breast and basal joints of the legs 

 covered with silvery pubescence : legs black, the anterior pair in 



