fattiitftait miitonialofitst. 



Vol. XXXVI. LONDON, OCTOBER, 1904. No. 10 



A NEW GENUS AND SOME NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA 

 FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, I\I. A., D. SC, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



All of the Hymenoptera described in this paper were received from 

 Father W. A. Stanton, who captured them in the Observatory Garden at 

 Manila, P. I. 



Family X. — Stelidid^. Ccelioxys, Latr. 



Cce/ioxys MamVc^, new sptc'ws. — 5. Length, 6.5 mm. Black; the 

 cheeks, temples, clypeus and the face upwards to the front ocellus, the 

 mesopleura, sternum, coxie, metathorax, and the apical margins of the 

 ventral and dorsal abdominal segments, clothed, rather densely, with a 

 whitish pubescence, sometimes tinged with yellow; there are also triangular 

 spots of a yellowish pubescence on the anterior and posterior margins of 

 the mesonotum and on the base of the scutellum ; the head and thorax 

 are rather coarsely, closely punctured, opaque, while the abdomen is 

 shining, although distinctly punctate, the punctures sparse and separated ; 

 the pygidium is bi-impressed at apex with a short median carina separating 

 the impressions, the punctures being coarser and closer in the impressions 

 or towards apex ; the mandibles medially and the legs are red, the femora 

 beneath and the tibife outwardly being clothed with a short, fine, dense, 

 whitish pubescence. Wings hyaline, but faintly fuscous towards their 

 apical margins, the tegulae dark rufo-piceous, shining, the stigma and veins 

 very dark fuscous, almost black. 



Type.— No. 8 103, U. S. N. M. 



Manila (Father Stanton). 



Family XH. — Andrenid.e. Halictus, Latr, 



Halidiis Alafiike, new species. — 9 • Length, 6 mm. ^neous 

 black, the head from the base of the antennae upwards greenish metallic, 

 closely punctured, and clothed with a griseous pubescence, the clypeus 

 smooth, but with some sparse punctures, the anterior margin fringed with 

 yellowish hairs ; the median process of the labrum is semicircular and 

 bi-impressed at base ; ocelli pale or whitish ; antennre black, the flagellum 

 testaceous beneath, the pedicel small, only a little longer than thick, and 

 much narrower than the flagellum ; the first joint of the flagellum is 



