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front and all the joints reddish-yellow : abdomen black, the first segment 

 rufo-piceous at the apex, with two lateral minute yellow spots, the 

 second with lateral oblong maculae, the third and fourth with lateral 

 pairs of yellow spots, the remaining segments with lateral single ma- 

 culae ; margins of the segments beneath rufo-piceous, and fringed 

 with silvery hairs. 



Kirby described two varieties of the female, under the names of 

 Apis rufo-cincta and A. Sheppardana. The male is the Nomada 

 furva of Panzer, and the Nomada Dalii of Curtis. The species is 

 abundant, but from its colour and minute size escapes detection. I 

 have found it in numbers frequenting the burrows of Andrena fulvago, 

 and Mr. Newport I believe extracted specimens from the cocoons of 

 Colletes. 



Sp. 14. Nomada ferruginata. 

 Apis ferruginata, Linn. Kirby's Mon. 



Female, (4 lines). Black : head, mandibles rufous, piceous at their 

 tips ; antennae rufous, scape black, the rest slightly stained above ; a 

 minute tooth on the labrum : thorax, the collar laterally, tubercles, 

 tegulae, and two spots on the scutellum rufous : legs rufous ; the 

 coxae, except their apical margins, black ; anterior and intermediate 

 femora black beneath at their base, the posterior black beneath, ex- 

 cept their extreme apex ; the tibiae with a black stain in front towards 

 their apex, the first and second pairs minutely stained ; the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi black : a silvery pubescence on the metathorax : 

 abdomen rufous, the base black, a black spot at the lateral margins 

 of the second and third segments at their base, the fourth and fifth 

 with a black fascia, the latter interrupted ; beneath rufous, with a 

 black spot in the centre at the base of each segment. 



Male, (4 lines). Similarly coloured to the female, but has a silvery 

 pubescence on the face, on the legs and breast, and on the margins 

 of the abdominal segments ; the scutellum is black ; the lip has a 

 minute horn or tooth. 



Kirby described the male of this species. I consider it to be the 

 Nomada germanica of Panzer. 



Sp. 15. Nomada xanthosticta. 

 Apis xanthosticta, Kirby's Mon. 



Female, (length 3 J lines). Maxillae and labrum ferruginous ; an- 

 tennae ferruginous ; scape black : thorax, tubercles yellow, tegulae 

 rufous, two obscure ferruginous spots on the scutellum : legs piceous ; 



