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Tribe IV. ANTHOPHILA, Lutr. 



Fam. 1. ANDEENID^, Leach. 

 Gen. Halictus, Latr. 



1. Halictus fraternus. H. aeueus, metathorace cserulescente ; alls 

 hyalinis iridescentibus. 



Female. Length 2i lines. Head and thorax brassy- green, shining and 

 impunetate ; antennae sUghtly fulvous towards their apex beneath. 

 The metathorax blue-green ; at the base is a finely rugose seinicircukr 

 space which is enclosed by a smooth shining limb ; wings hyahne and 

 brilliantly iridescent ; the legs obscure rufo-fuscous, with the tarsi pale 

 testaceous. Abdomen black, smooth and shhiing, and with a few 

 glittering silvery hairs at its apex. 



Hab. Makassar. 



This species very closely resembles the British species Halictus morio, 

 but it is not punctured on the head and thorax, the clypeus is much 

 less produced, and the base of the metathorax has no striation in the 

 enclosed space. 



Gen. NoMiA, Latr. 



1. NoMiA CONCINNA. N. nigra; capite thoraceque punctatis sub- 

 opacis; abdomine uitido, segmentis ad marginem apicalem albo 

 fasciatis. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black ; the face densely clothed with silvery- 

 white pubescence; the head behind and the cheeks more thinly covered ; 

 the scape, two basal joints of the flagellum, the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus and the mandibles rufo-fulvous. Thorax : the posterior mar- 

 gin of the prothorax, as well as that of the postscutellum, fringed 

 with short pale fulvous pubescence ; the sides of the thorax and the 

 legs covered with a pale fulvous pubescence; the legs pale ferrugi- 

 nous ; the wings hyaline, shining and iridescent, the tegulae pale rufo- 

 testaceous. Abdomen shining and finely punctured, the apical margins 

 of the segments white, the two basal fascia; yellowish. 



The Male is rather smaller, and has the scape black, and the flagellum 

 fulvous beneath ; the manihbles ferruginous at their apex ; the apical 

 portion of the wings clouded, the femora and tibia; rufo-fuscous ; the 

 abdomen ferruginous beneath and obscurely so above, brightest 

 towards the base ; the segments with white fasciae, which are covered 

 with white pubescence. 



Hab. Makassar. 



Fam. 2. APIDtE. 



Gen. Ctenoplectka, Smith. 



1. Ctenoplectra chalybea, Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 45. 

 Hab. Celebes (Makassar). Malacca (Mount Ophir). 



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