266 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



at the laudslip at Luccomb, near Ventnor, and it was plen- 

 tiful when first taken by Mr. Bowring : 1 have not found it 

 elsewhere. It resembles H. laevis in the oblong form of the 

 abdomen, but it is distinctly although finely punctured, and 

 the thorax is much more closely punctured, and the insect is 

 more pubescent. 



The following is probably its male : it was taken at the 

 same spot as the female, but later in the autumn : — Its length 

 is three lines, the antennae longer than the thorax, extending 

 to half the length of the abdomen ; the flagellum fulvous be- 

 neath ; the apex of the clypeus white ; the thorax and head 

 finely and very closely punctured, the melathorax coarsely 

 rugose ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures testaceous ; 

 the tarsi pale testaceous ; abdomen oblong, smooth and 

 shining, with a little patch of white downy pubescence on 

 each side of the second and third segments at their basal 

 margins. 



18. Halictus l^vigatus. 



Melitta laevigata, Kirby^ Mon. Ap. Aiifjl. ii. 75, female. 



Halictus Igevigatus, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 274; Nyland. Ap. 

 Boreal, p. 239. 



H. lugubris. Smith, Brit. Bees, p. 33. 



II. fulvicornis, Smith, Brit. Bees, p. 41, male ? 



A local species, seldom found in any numbers. I formerly 

 considered it probable that H. lugubris was its male, but, 

 having taken H. fulvicornis in its company, I am inclined to 

 believe that insect is the male : as this is not conclusive 

 evidence, I only place it so provisionally. I have some 

 suspicion of H. lugubris being only a variety of the male of 

 H. zonulas. 



19. Halictus interruptus. 

 Hylseus interruptus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 5.5, 4, male. 

 Halictus interruptus, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 228; Smith, Brit. 



Bees, p. 43. 

 Of this insect there is a single specimen in the collection 

 of the British Museum ; it has a label attached, with the 

 locality of Kingsbridge : it is the only example I have seen. 

 Prof. Schenck is of opinion that this is a variety of H. 

 maculatus, male. 



