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BEES OF GREAT BRITAIN 



10, Halictus albipes. 



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

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

 tisque latcralibus nigris^ labro clvpeique apice pallide luteis. 



Apis albipes, Fadr, Mant. Ins, i. 306. 92^, 



Panz. Faun. Gerrn. 7. 15. 

 Hyla^us albipes, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 30G. 13. 

 Melitta albipes, Kirhy, Mon. Ap.Jngl ii. 71. 29. 

 Melitta obovata, Kirhy, Mon, Ap. Angl. ii. 75. 31 ? . 

 Prosopis albipes, Fahr, Syst. Piez. p. 294. 4 ^ . 

 Halictus albipes, Si, Farg, Hym. ii, 287. 31 $ . 



Smith, ZooL vi. 2167. 17 c? ?• 



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

 short griseous pubescence, the flagellum piceous beneath. 

 Thorax : very tliinly clothed with very pale ochraceous pubes- 

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

 tegulse piceous; the wungs fulvo-hyaline, the ncrvures testaceous; 

 the metathorax truncate posteriorly, the basal portion not en- 

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

 tibise 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 

 ypex, 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 wtoe 

 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 tegulse pale yellow in 

 froiit ; the wings hyaline, splendidly iridescent, the ncrvures fer- 

 ruginous ; the femora at their apex, the tibise 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 tow^ards 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. iS. The apical margin only of the basal segment red, the 

 two following as in var. a. 



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