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Ashmeadiella Holtii,x\. %^. — $. Length nearly 6 mm., head and 

 thorax black, abdomen and legs mostly ferruginous. Head nearly as 

 large as thorax, eyes very large ; face about square, covered with snow- 

 white pubescence, as also are the cheeks ; vertex punctured, with thin 

 pale mouse-coloured pubescence ; antennae short, flagellum dull ferrugi- 

 nous beneath ; mandibles ferruginous, tridentate, the outer tooth long, 

 slender and black. Thorax not very closely punctured, the pubescence 

 white beneath and at the sides, grayish above. TeguhB amber colour. 

 Wings short, quite clear. Legs ferruginous with white pubescence ; an- 

 terior coxae and femora and middle cox* and femora more or less black- 

 ened. Abdomen punctured, ferruginous; first segment black at base, and 

 dorsal middle of second and third segments suffused with blackish ; 

 no distinct hair-bands, but apex largely clothed with white hair ; apex 

 with four teeth, the median ones somewhat further from each other than 

 from the lateral. 



Hab. — College Farm, Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, May 2, 1895. 

 Collected by Mr. Alfred Holt. Allied to A. bigelovue, but very distinct 

 by the red abdomen. 



Halicttis olympice, n. sp. — ?. Nearly 10 mm. long, black. In 

 structure, colour, the shiny surface, the white patches on the abdomen, 

 etc., this agrees with H. pedoraloides ; it differs, however, in being con- 

 siderably larger, and much broader in every way ; the abdomen is very 

 broad, and the head is transversely oval, with an extremely broad face. 

 The abdomen, including the first segment, is very distinctly punctured. 

 The antenniw are proportionately 'longer than in pedoraloides, dSidi \\\^ 

 mesothorax is more closely punctured. The base of the metathorax is 

 covered with quite regular, strong, longitudinal ridges. The tegulas are 

 shining, piceous, with a brown spot and a pale edge. Wings slightly 

 smoky, nervures and stigma dark brown. Hind spur of hind tibia with 

 numerous short teeth. 



Hab. — Olympia, Washington State, June 26, 1896. (T. Kincaid.) 

 Also from Olympia, Mr. Kincaid sends what may be called H. olympyice^ 

 var. subangustus. It differs from the type by the narrower and more hairy 

 face, the translucent pale testaceous teguhe, and the narrower basal 

 enclosure of the metathorax. It is possible that subangustus is a distinct 

 species, but I think it is only a variety. 



Halictus Kincaidii, n. sp. — $. About 8 ram. long, black. This is 

 another species of the type o( pedoraloides, from which it differs thus : 



