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Legs blackish green, knees and bases of tibiae reddish yellow. Basal 

 joints of middle tarsi with some reddish color. Hind femora much thick- 

 ened and with two rows of short spines below near the apex; the hind tibiae 

 and metatarsi noticeably thickened. Legs with fine pale hairs, longer on 

 the upper and lower surfaces of the femora. Inner side of apex of hind 

 tibiae with longer yellow bristly hairs. Wings grayish hyaline. Anterior 

 cross-vein oblique and placed beyond the middle of the discal cell. Stigma 

 pale brown. Halteres yellow. 



9 . Very similar to male (see figure). Vertex and frons broad, widen- 

 ing a little below. Frons gray pruinose along the eye margins; hairs 

 black across the ocelli and at base of antennae, but pale elsewhere. Third 

 antennal joint much broader than in the male (see figures) and darker in 

 color. 



Length 5.5 to 7.5 mm. 



Habitat. This species is distributed through Europe down 

 into Spain and Italy and goes north to middle Sweden and 

 Finland. It is reported from northern Africa and Syria. 

 In North America there are records from Maine, Massachu- 

 setts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Ottawa and Quebec, Canada in the east; further west it is 

 reported from Ohio and Colorado and is now known to occur 

 all along the Pacific Coast from California to British Columbia. 



Notes on Species of Halictus Visiting Evening 



Flowers (Hyni). 



By O. A. STEVENS, Agricultural College, North Dakota. 



Halictus (Megalopta?) texanus (Cresson). 



1872. Sphecodes texana Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc.,v. 4., p. 249. 

 1887. Parasphecodes texanus Cresson, ibid., Supp. vol., p. 292. 



1898. Halictus texanus Cockerell, ibid., v. 25, p. 185. 



1899. Sphecodogastra texana Ashmead, ibid., v. 26, p. 92. 

 1913. Megalopta - - Ducke, Zool. Jahr., v. 34, p. 85. 



9 Mesonotum rather shining, punctures of moderate size (about 20 

 microns), separated by scarcely a puncture width laterally and from one 

 and one-half to two times their width medially; basal area of propodeum 

 with about 20 fine, irregular ridges, the angle and truncation smooth; 

 inner spurs of hind tibiae with two to five (usually three, the upper at 

 about the middle of the spur) slender teeth; scopa sparse, inner side of 

 tibiae with rather sparse, long, nearly simple hairs, trochanter and lowrr 

 edge of femur with only a row of simple bristles, the upper with rather 

 shorter ones. 



