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separating them into sections : in the last division of the British 

 species are placed such species as have the first recurrent nervure 

 uniting with the second transverse- cubital nervure. 



This species is local, and appears to prefer situations on the 

 coast : it is met with plentifully at Brighton, and Ventnor in 

 the Isle of Wight, and has been received from Arundel, Little 

 Hampton, and Hastings. 



3. Halietus leucozonius. 



H. ater, cinereo-pubescens, abdominis segmentis intermediis basi 

 albis. Mas, naso porrecto, apice albo. 



Apis leucozonia, Schranfc, Ins. Aust.p. 406. 319 $ . 



Rossi, Mantis, p. 319. 



Melitta leucozonia, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 76. 33 <J $ . 

 Halietus leucozonius, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 275. 13. 



Smith, Zool.vi. 2171. 21. 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 119. 3 ; Revis. Ap. Boreal, p. 240. 8. 



Female. Length 4-4 lines. Jet-black; the clypeus produced, 

 the face on each side has a little cinereous pubescence, the 

 mandibles ferruginous at their apex. Thorax thinly clothed on 

 the disk with pale fulvous pubescence, the metathorax rugose, 

 and having a sub defined space at the base longitudinally ru- 

 gose ; the tegulae dark rufo-piceous ; the wings hyaline, beau- 

 tifully iridescent, the nervures ferruginous ; the legs have a 

 cinereous pubescence, the posterior pair having their scopa? 

 slightly fulvescent ; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. 

 Abdomen subovate, shining, closely and finely punctured, the 

 second, third and fourth segments have on their basal margins 

 a band of short snow-white pubescence, the first band usually in- 

 terrupted -, the apex has a little pale fulvous pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 3-3| lines. Black ; the face clothed with white 

 pubescence, the apex of the clypeus white, the mandibles fer- 

 ruginous at their tips ; the thorax punctured as in the female ; 

 the wings clear hyaline and splendidly iridescent; the basal 

 joint of the four posterior tarsi white, covered with a white 

 glittering pubescence, the claws ferruginous. Abdomen oblong- 

 ovate, convex above, uniformly punctured and having a thinly- 

 scattered cinereous pubescence, the second and third segments 

 have usually on each side on their basal margins a patch of 

 white pubescence ; these are frequently obliterated. B.M. 



This is a very abundant species, and is found in most parts of 

 the country ; in the month of August this bee occurs in 



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