"This I suspect is the ♂ ofintegra; area similarly strigose, and abdomen also corresponds; tubercle matches also!"Robertson thought this might beA. platyparia: but, he said, the description applied even better toSalicis, and nearly as well tomandibularis. It cannot well besalicis, as that has the abdomen impunctate; if it is the ♂ ofintegra, it cannot well bemandibularis; it may perhaps beplatyparia.Andrena frigida, Smith, 1853."♂ abdomen rugulose and punctured, clothed with long adpressed

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... ; tubercle slightly emarginate (?); area dull granulose; ♀ ditto. (Very nearfuscipes, perhaps identical with it.)" This agrees with what I had already identified from Smith's description. It seems to argree with the description ofA. simillima, Sm., even better than with that offuscipes, but I doubt its actual identity with either.