J^ BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



10. Halictus albipes. 



H. ater, glabriusculus ; abdomine nitidissimo, obovato, segmentis 

 basi albis. Mas, abdominis segmentis intermediis rufis, punc- 

 tisque lateralibus nigris, labro clypeique apice pallide luteis. 



Apis albipes, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. 306. 92 $ . 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 7. 15. 

 Hylaeus albipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 306. 13. 

 Melitta albipes, Kirby, Mon. Ap.Angl. ii. 71. 29. 

 Melitta ohovata, Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 75. 31 $ . 

 Prosopis albipes, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 294. 4 $ . 

 Halictus albipes, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 287. 31 ^ . 



Smithy Zool. vi. 2167. 17 $ ? . 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black ; the face thinly clothed with 

 short griseous pubescence, the flagellum piceous beneath. 

 Thorax : very thinly clothed with very pale ochraceous pubes- 

 cence on the disk, on the sides and beneath it is griseous ; the 

 tegulae piceous; the wings fulvo-hy aline, the nervures testaceous; 

 the metathorax truncate posteriorly, the basal portion not en- 

 closed, but rugose-striate ; beyond, slightly roughened ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi have a pale fulvous pubescence, on the latter 

 beneath it is bright fulvous, the apical joints of the tarsi ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen ovate, very smooth and shining at the base 

 and in the middle of the segments, the sides, and towards the 

 apex, covered with a short pale fulvous pubescence ; at the base 

 of the second, third and fourth segments a thin fascia of white 

 or very pale pubescence. B.M. 



Male. Length 3i-4 lines. The face covered with short white 

 pubescence, the clypeus at its apex and the labrum and man- 

 dibles yellow, the latter black at the base and ferruginous at 

 their apex. Thorax : the tubercles and tegulae pale yellow in 

 front ; the wings hyaline, splendidly iridescent, the nervures fer- 

 ruginous ; the femora at their apex, the tibiae at their base 

 and apex, and the tarsi yellowish-white, the claws ferruginous. 

 Abdomen elongate, widest towards the apex, the three basal 

 segments red ; the base and a quadrate patch nearly reaching 

 the apical margin of the first segment, a short transverse patch 

 on the apical margin of the second segment, and a similar one 

 on the third, black ; beneath, red towards the base ; a black 

 dot at the extreme lateral margins of the second and third seg- 

 ments. B.M. 



Var. a. The sides and apical margins only red. 



Var. )3. The apical margin only of the basal segment red, the 

 two following as in var. a. 



