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Halictus pcstlucens sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 7 millimeters ; black, with pale ocher- 

 ous hair; head ordinary; face glistening, clypeus with a de- 

 pression at apical middle; front dull, narrowly shining along 

 orbits; antennse black; scutellum with fuscous hair, postseu- 

 tellum with pale tomentum; mesothorax and scutellum shining, 

 sparsely and finely punctured; area of metathorax poorly de- 

 fined, glistening, with feeble, raised lines, and apically distinct 

 traces of transverse striae; posterior truncation well denned, 

 smooth and shining ; tegulse piceous, with a reddish spot ; wings 

 dusky, stigma and nervures dull reddish, not dark; first recur- 

 rent nervure joining basal corner of third submarginal cell; 

 third submarginal cell considerably larger and broader than 

 second, though second is fairly broad; legs black, with pale 

 ocherous hair, tarsi reddened at apex; abdomen shining, with- 

 out evident punctures; some pale tomentum at bases of second 

 and following segments; venter with pale ocherous hair, not 

 forming a long curled scopa or lateral patches. 

 Luzon, Mountain Province, Baguio (Baker). 



Halictus fulvovittatus sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 6 to 6.3 millimeters; black, the hind mar- 

 gins of the abdominal segments broadly testaceous or pale 

 golden, the bands shading into ferruginous along their anterior 

 margins, the bands on first two segments broader in the middle 

 than at the sides ; hair of head and thorax white with a creamy 

 tint, dense on upper border of prothorax laterally, on margins of 

 tubercles, and on postscutellum, thin on face; head ordinary; 

 mandibles dark red in middle; fiagellum obscurely reddish 

 beneath; middle of clypeus depressed and punctured; a shining 

 line along anterior orbits; mesothorax and scutellum finely and 

 rather closely punctured ; area of metathorax finely but very dis- 

 tinctly striate on basal half ; posterior truncation with long hair 

 and without sharp margins ; tegulse bright fulvous ; wings faintly 

 dusky, nervures and stigma dilute reddish sepia; first recur- 

 rent nervure joining second submarginal cell near apex; third 

 submarginal cell larger than second, but higher than broad; 

 knees and small joints of tarsi ferruginous; hind tibiae and tarsi 

 dull reddish ; hind spur with three stout teeth ; abdomen broad, 

 conspicuously thinly hairy, but without bands or patches of 

 tomentum ; venter with short hair, but no curled scopa or lateral 

 patches. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling (Baker), 2. 



