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black hairs ; thorax with blackish pubescence; abdomen with segments 

 2 — 4 above covered with short but conspicuous silvery pile ; wings 

 hyaline, with the apical margin of forewing infuscated as far as the 

 neuration. 



Long. 12-15 mm. 



ElJMENES MONTANA, 11. sp. 



$ Clypeus smooth, front punctured, the punctures increasing in 

 size towards the vertex, where they are close and deep ; thorax, median 

 segment, and petiole closely but shallowly punctured, almost granular ; 

 remaining abdominal segments impunctate ; clypeus produced, its 

 apex transverse ; mesonotum with two impressed parallel longitudinal 

 lines on it's apical half ; scutellum with a slight median longitudinal carina 

 at base ; median segment almost vertical, with a broad groove ; petiole 

 shorter than thorax, narrow at base, widening towards the centre, where 

 it is three times as wide as at base ; second abdominal segment as long as 

 or longer than the petiole. Red ; the clypeus and the portion of front 

 immediately above it yellowish ; apical four joints of antennse, vertex, 

 and some marks on mesonotum blackish ; second abdominal segment 

 narrowly black at base, then red, then with a broad black band, it's apex 

 narrowly yellow ; the visible part of the remaining abdominal segments 

 yellow ; ventral abdominal segments similarly coloured, except that 

 the second segment has no yellow band at apex : almost entirely without 

 pubescence ; wings flavo-hyaline, with infuscated patches at apex of* 

 forewing, nervures rufo-testaceous, darker towards apex, tegulce red. 



Long, (to end of second abdominal segment). 17 mm. 



Habitat : Quetta ; two specimens. 



This species is in colour very similar to E. petiolata (Fabr.), but the 

 petiole in that species is about twice as long as in the present and is 

 differently shaped. The present species is nearest to E. arbmtorvm 

 (Penzer) as regards the shape of petiole, but differs in colouring. 



Halictus orpheus, nom. nov. 



In Vol. LXX, Part II, of the Journal of the Asiatic Society, p. 148, 

 1 described a species of Halictus under the name of H. te&taceus. I 

 find that this name had already been given to a North American species, 

 and I, therefore, propose to rename my species H. orpheus. In a genus 

 like Halictus, which occurs almost all over the world, it is very difficult 

 to be certain that a name has not been used before. 



