﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  T'o/. 
  .\li. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4, 
  93 
  

  

  part 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  being 
  distinctly 
  raised 
  and 
  

   eparated 
  from 
  the 
  lateral 
  ; 
  these 
  are 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  

   and 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  the 
  surrounding 
  keel 
  is 
  stout 
  and 
  

   piceous 
  in 
  colour. 
  

  

  Antennas 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  brownish 
  beneath, 
  and 
  

   bearing 
  a 
  slight 
  white 
  microscopic 
  down. 
  Head 
  coarsely 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  bearing 
  short 
  white 
  microscopic 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   the 
  inner 
  orbits 
  to 
  near 
  the 
  lower 
  ocellus, 
  and 
  dilated 
  

   below 
  the 
  antennas 
  and 
  narrower 
  at 
  the 
  bottom 
  than 
  at 
  

   the 
  top, 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  mark 
  on 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  broad 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  and 
  gradually 
  narrowed 
  to 
  the 
  top, 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  

   upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  yellow, 
  the 
  apical 
  piceous. 
  

   Thorax 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  pro- 
  and 
  meso-notum 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  

   median 
  segment 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  somewhat 
  square 
  

   coarsely 
  rugose 
  space, 
  surrounded 
  by 
  a 
  smooth 
  impunc- 
  

   tate 
  area, 
  bordered 
  by 
  a 
  stout, 
  semicircular 
  piceous 
  keel 
  ; 
  

   the 
  apex 
  without 
  a 
  distinct 
  furrow 
  and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  white 
  hairs. 
  Pleurae 
  and 
  sternum 
  strongly 
  punc- 
  

   tured 
  ; 
  a 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  pronotum 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  tubercles 
  

   and 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  tegulae 
  yellow, 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  tegulae, 
  

   piceous. 
  Legs 
  black, 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  knees, 
  tibias 
  and 
  tarsi, 
  the 
  middle 
  tibiae 
  

   broadly 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  slightly 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  hinder 
  

   tibias 
  broadly 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  the 
  metatarsi, 
  yellow; 
  the 
  

   hinder 
  femora 
  incline 
  to 
  piceous 
  beneath 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  yellow 
  

   is 
  suffused 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  or 
  apex 
  with 
  brownish. 
  Abdomen 
  

   shining, 
  the 
  sides 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  pubescence. 
  

   The 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  yellow 
  mark 
  on 
  the 
  clypeus 
  varies. 
  

  

  HALICTUS. 
  

  

  a. 
  Species 
  with 
  the 
  abdomen 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  reddish. 
  

   Halictus 
  Wroughtoni, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Niger 
  ; 
  longe 
  dense 
  pallide 
  hirtus 
  ; 
  abdominis 
  bast 
  late 
  

   riifo; 
  pedibus 
  nigris, 
  femoribus 
  fere 
  piceis, 
  longe 
  albo 
  -pilosis 
  ; 
  

   alls 
  hyalinis, 
  stigmate 
  piceo, 
  nervis 
  pallidis. 
  2. 
  Long. 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hub. 
  Bomba}' 
  Presidency 
  (Wroiighton). 
  

  

  